Term Papers on Violence On Television

Term Paper Title	Violence On Television
# of Words	464
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.86

Violence on Television

Freedom of speech is granted to United States citizens under the first
amendment of the Constitution.  Many people, however, seem to feel that this
right is often exercised too freely on television.  Whether this is true or not is
a large controversy.  Although most people believe in speaking their minds
on television, it is also understood by most people that freedom of speech can
be carried too far, which is kind of ironic because the constitution says that
US Citizens can say whatever they’d like to say when ever they’d like to say
it.
     Violence is something that a lot of people have a problem with when
they see it displayed on their television sets.  It hasn’t been determined if
television causes people to act violently or if violent people watch a lot of
television(Sensational TV 34), but many viewers believe violence is wrong
just the same.  Researchers are, however, studying the effect television has on
grown adults.  To do this, however, they need to look back to the adult’s
childhood.  Researchers believe that people will see over 100,000 acts of
simulated violence in their childhood(Sensational TV 46).
     The problem with freedom of speech and television isn’t only on the
viewer’s side.  The people who are on television have problems also.
     On April 16, 1996, Oprah Winfrey said some things on her talk show
about beef that may have lead her audiences to become scared to eat certain
cattle products.  Opra...

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