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Talk about the violence,drugs, profanity and sexual explisit stuff on TV today…this has cause a tramendous negative impact on our youth. Look at the five year olds able to give graphic details of abusive situations, sexual actions and the average one can point out a drug deal taking place in the city or on a residential street or at a park…that is pretty negative stuff which a lot of them have learned from TV. I look at some of the teenage shows and how disrespectful the kids talk to their parents and that is supposed to entertain our children. My daughter used to get so upset with me when I wouldn’t let her watch That’s so Raven because the young girl was so disrespectful to her parents…my daughter talked back a few times and lost the privilage of TV for a long time and then when she earned it back she couldn’t watch any shows geared for kids or not that promoted disrespect of your elders or involved drugs, sex, or violence.

And people wonder why kids are so messed up today…

Into drugs, crime, sex, disrespectful of their elders and the law.

Well I hope this gets your thoughts rolling in the right direction! Good luck I’m sure your paper will come out wonderful!

The reason you can’t find it there is…the sum total of all knowledge is not IN your head! Look outside your head at some of the studies that have been done on this subject by others. Then you will simply need to report what was most interesting to you out of that research… in your paper. Here are some links and I hope you enjoy writing about it!

Parents Television Council

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Parents Television Council

Founder L. Brent Bozell III

Type Interest group

Founded 1995

Headquarters Alexandria, Virginia and Los Angeles, California

Key people L. Brent Bozell III (founder), Tim Winter (current president), advisory board members include Billy Ray Cyrus, C. Delores Tucker, Sam Brownback, Steve Allen

Area served United States of America

Focus “Bringing back responsibility and family values to the entertainment industry”

Method Media attention, direct-appeal campaigns

Members 1,000,000 and growing

Slogan “Because our children are watching”

Website http://www.parentstv.org

The Parents Television Council (PTC) is a US-based nonprofit organization founded by conservative activist L. Brent Bozell III whose stated goal is to “promote and restore responsibility to the entertainment industry.”[1] Its campaigns include cable choice which allows subscribers to select and pay for only those channels they watch, holding advertisers accountable for the television programs their ads support, and trying to protect children from television content they find “harmful and negative.” According to various standards and practices executives, the PTC is responsible for 99% of complaints filed with the FCC, with its own members filing tens of thousands of complaints per year, a number which does not include complaints filed with the FCC by non-members through the PTC webpage.[2][3][4] Its slogan is: “Because our children are watching”.

The counterpart to the PTC in the UK is Mediawatch, an organization apparently having a membership of some 40,000 people, but which has a much smaller impact than its American cousin.

Best and Worst Shows

Every television season since 1996-1997[40], the council has released a list of the best and worst prime-time television programs for family viewing. Starting with the 2005-2006 season, their list was based on their traffic light system as well as Nielsen Media Research ratings of viewership among children ages 2-17 of certain shows. [41] Popular shows that have frequently been praised as the most family-friendly programs on television include George Lopez[42], 7th Heaven, Touched by an Angel, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Boy Meets World[43], Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, NBC Sunday Night Football, and Deal or No Deal.[41] Popular shows frequently named “Worst of the Season” include American Dad[41], CSI: Crime Scene Investigation [42] [41], Dawson’s Creek, The Drew Carey Show, Family Guy[44] [41], Friends[40], The O.C., Spin City[40] [43], That ’70s Show[43][42] and Will and Grace[40] [43].

Every week starting from August 2002 [45], the PTC has published weekly reviews of the best and worst television programming for family viewing, authored by the various entertainment analysts at the council. Generally, “green-lighted” shows are chosen as the best and “red-lighted” for the worst. However, “yellow-lighted” shows may be chosen for either “best” or “worst”. America’s Got Talent[46], Hope & Faith[47], My Name is Earl[48], My Wife and Kids[49], Scrubs[50], Still Standing[51], and Ugly Betty[52] are all yellow-lighted shows that have been desginated as “Worst of the Week” before. [53] [54] [55] [56][57] [58] [59]However, the yellow-rated [60] 8 Simple Rules, George Lopez, and The Tracy Morgan Show have been given both “Best”[42][61][62][63][64] and “Worst”[65][66][67][68] honors. So You Think You Can Dance is rated yellow[69] [70] but has consistently earned “Best of the Week” honors from the PTC. [71] In two rare cases, the council picked the red-lighted[72] Brat Camp as “Best of the Week”, claiming it “first seemed to be a show that celebrated or exploited bad kids and their outrageous behavior”, but became a “series that shows that no child is a lost cause and anyone can better themselves and change.” .[73]. The red-rated According to Jim has received both “best”[74] and “worst”[75][76] honors.

– Tv makes the children known enough of the threats that they might have to encounter

– It makes them well aware of their known enemies and of the enemies of their state.

– It at times make children sensible enough at such a small age inspite of the fact that they have been exposed to some adult content

– Children of today are better than the children of yesterday and in some cases adults of today too……….

THE MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR IS

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Let’s see…too much television means less homework, worsen vision, and “bad” media (celebs doing stupid stuff, setting bad examples like smoking/drugs/drinking). Children are “monkey see, monkey do” so if they see that models are all extremely skinny, they should also be skinny. Also, television nowadays have too much violence and sexual themes.

children are influenced easily. a child could get hurt mimicking something they see on tv so on and so forth