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Young Children and TV. Aggression and TV - 2. We worry about so many dangers to our children drugs, perverts, bullies but seldom notice the biggest menace of all: the multibillion-dollar marketing effort aimed at turning the kids into oversexed, status-obsessed, attention-deficient little consumers. See these tvSmarter webpages for more information:. TV and Young Children. Http:/ www.tvsmarter.com/documents/young.html. TV Statistics - How Much Do Kids Watch? How Does TV Effect Schoolwork? And Psypost (Se...

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Young Children and TV. Aggression and TV - 2. American TV drama series Mad Men has triggered a dramatic boom in the sales of Lucky Strike cigarettes, causing outrage among anti-smoking campaigners." - The Telegraph (Sept 2013). Tobacco and smoking were seen less frequently on movie screens from 1996 to 2009, but scenes with alcohol and drinking in movies aimed at youth have risen, researchers found." - MedPage Today (May 2013). Only one month into being a non-smoker, I was still in a vulnerable state&#46...

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Young Children and TV. Aggression and TV - 2. Forty-two percent of Americans say they eat dinner in front of the TV every day. Reader's Digest, September 2006. Less TV = Less Obesity. There's more evidence to suggest the USA's epidemic of childhood obesity is stabilizing, and the reasons may be that kids are eating better and watching less TV. ". USA Today (Sept 2013). That would result in about 13 pounds lost in a year, without making any other changes! And Science Daily (Dec 2009). Reducing television ...

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Young Children and TV. Aggression and TV - 2. Because television has become so ubiquitous so quickly, it is difficult to do before TV and after TV studies. On the other hand, studying the effects of eliminating or reducing TV is very feasible. In fact this has been done on at least a few occasions. A lot of laboratory studies have been done on the effects of video games, but only a few laboratory tests have been done on the effects of television. Effects of TV on Cognition. And Pediatrics (Sept 2011).

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Young Children and TV. Aggression and TV - 2. Reading comics and/or romance novels. Watching PBS and The Discovery channel,. The latest National Endowment for the Arts report draws on a variety of sources, public and private, and essentially reaches one conclusion: Americans are reading less.". See also The Long Decline of Reading. And Reading for pleasure falling among US adults. And More and More Americans Who Can Read Are Choosing Not To. Can We Afford to Write Them Off? The Lost Book Generation.

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Young Children and TV. Aggression and TV - 2. Glorifying (and Selling) Guns. The demand for assault rifles among people who, in many cases, had not previously owned or fired one can be attributed to the popular culture depictions of the weapon in movies, its numerous mentions in national and international news reports, and a paranoid narrative about government control of weapons and losing constitutional freedoms." - Raw Story (March 2013). Pretty soon, the gun was everywhere. In 2010, Brandchannel.

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Young Children and TV. Aggression and TV - 2. Crime Rate / Incarceration Rate. That exposure to violent TV does indeed lead to more aggressive thoughts, attitudes and actions. Could this help explain the fact that the homicide rate nearly doubled from the mid 1960's to the late 1970's. See graphs) Also by Age. In reaction to this huge crime increase, the public supported policies that have led to a 500% increase in the incarceration rate. Pdf) - see also The New York Times (April 2008). Homicide rate per...

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Young Children and TV. Aggression and TV - 2. And Pediatrics (Sept 2011). And Medical News Today (Sept 2011). And USA Today (Sept 2011). And Science Daily (Sept 2011). And Mail Online (Sept 2011). And PsychCentral (Sept 2011). And Earth Sky (Sept 2011). And Obesity Panacea (Sept 2011). And The New York Times (Sept 2011). And San Francisco Chronicle (Sept 2011). And Psypost (Sept 2011). And sott.net (Sept 2011). And Psychology Today (Sept 2011). And Live Science (Sept 2011). And US News Health (Sept 2011).

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Young Children and TV. Aggression and TV - 2. 8220; The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. 8221; T.S. Eliot. Ray Romano's wife complained to Rolling Stone magazine that her husband spoke to his TV wife more in one episode than he spoke to her in one week at home. "Well we have writers on the show," explained Romano. "If we had writers here, we'd be having long funny conversations.". And The New York Times (Nov 2008).

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Young Children and TV. Aggression and TV - 2. I feel television has died. It's such a make-the-doughnuts mentality. It's about finding 48 minutes of material so you can have 12 minutes of good commercials. If they thought they could get good commercials out of 10 people being naked and spinning on their heads in the middle of an island, that's what they'll do.". Hill Harper (City of Angels) in TV Guide Online. Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed. Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirkey. Cable aside,...