Samantha McCarthy
Professor Louis A. Lucca
Media and Society (H130)
April 21, 2011
Over the years, Media sociologists have claimed that children who grew up watching television constantly were more likely to interact with crimes and violence as they got older no matter what the television show they were watching. I agree with the media sociologist half and half because I myself grew up watching Cartoons and family shows which could sometimes be violent but I grew up to be a very decent young lady. I guess what I am trying to say is that it all depends on the child itself. Children tend to behave and follow things or people that they see on television. If it is someone they admire or is a role model to them, which ever road that role model decide to take whether it’s good or bad the children would not think twice about what they are doing, they would just follow them. Sometimes the television could be one of the most dangerous things in your house. Watching television can cause you to lose contraction on everything else that is going on around you, especially towards children. For example if a child is watching a show that they like and danger is around them by the time they noticed something is wrong it could be too late to stop it. Television can cause people to get distracted.
On March 13, 1946 a queen’s resident name Kitty Genovese was murdered outside her home in knew gardens. Thirty-seven people witness the murder but didn’t take an affect. They were so distracted by either the television or thought it was none of there
Business. They watched the stalker stab the women in three separate attacks .Each time that he returned he would sough her out and then stab her again. Meanwhile not one person made an effort to telephone the police while it was occurring until afterwards one person made an attempt after she was dead. ("Murder of Kitty Genovese." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 22 Apr. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese. Web.
In today’s world people are very noisy and if they see and accident there willing to hold up traffic and watch. If someone is being attack on the street more than one person would eagerly call the police. That is to show you the time change difference from the early years of television to the present. Let’s go back some decades where the television was first acknowledge and how it expanded over the years to have an effect on people. Between the years of 1940 when television was first commercialized in the U.S. to the present time developed, explored and change rapidly. In the 1940s it was initially by RCA which NBC who had owned and CBS. Towards the end of the 1930s several broadcast systems had developed. To provide basis TV across the country the National television system Committee standardized on 525 line broadcast. The television process had a cease movement when World War 2 had begun, but the pioneers had returned to the air waves when the war ended. Afterwards the concentrating was on the east and west coast and a few stations were operating at the end of the decade. By 1955 the United States was one of the most major mass media. Most Americans households had at least one television set. But majority of them had more than one. Some could even only afford the black and white models. But by that time a few of the programs were running with color until the mid-1960s. The television network of the United States as a whole was the largest and most syndicated. "Television in the United States." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 18 Apr. 2011. Web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_the_United_States. Web.
The United States had the first regularly scheduled television service on July 2, 1928. Most of the early TV programs were just images of radio shows. In the year of the 50’s they were able to justify TV from movies and radio stations. For example the talk show “The Jack Paar show and the TV show “I love Lucy“. Different stations across the world were producing their own local programs which contained simple advertisement game shows and shows for the children to watch. A few of the Local shows often became popular and profitable but was only about selling product promotion and other conflict that guided them to closely vanishing by the 1970s. "Television in the United States." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 18 Apr. 2011. Web. 23 Apr. 2011. Web.
By the 1970s, there were about 700 uhf and vhf television’s stations. Today there is just 1,300.During the 1970s TV stations and network ranked $3.6 billion in ad revenues and as of today we are over 60 billion.Televison programming made a big impact on American and world culture. People critics the 1950s as the golden age of the televison.the TV set were starting to get prices and are catching the viewer’s attention. Producer of television program had a feeling that Broadway plays were attracting ad audience segment that they decide to move the play to television studios. The more television people had in there households the more the programs varied.
Game shows started to become more popular during the 50s.At the same time many of the genes that people were familiar with today started to expand. For example spoah opera, game shows, kids cartoons, the news and the sports channel. On November 22 ,1963 when the president Kennedy was assassinated several American rush to the TV set to hear the news.it was such a tragedy that the network devoted all there airtime days after days to cover the funeral and the aftermath. Americans left church early to come home and watch the Sunday morning news when they heard Jack Ruby had killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The Fourth most popular show on television during the 1960s was the “Andy Griffith show” from the 1960 to 1967 it remained on the top ten until it became number one. GENZEL, Bill. "Television during the 1950s and 1960s." The Wessels Living History Farm, the Story of Agricultural Innovation. 2007. 24 Apr. 2011 Web.
According Levitt dubner every year a child was exposed to televiso with their first
Fifteen there was four percent increase in the amount of people arrested for property crime years later in life and it also increased the violent crime arrest. In today’s record the children who had extra television exposure since birth effected them the most.at the age four kids were watching cartoons and family shows, so at that time it was difficult to blame the problems later on, on the televison.some children growing up was on lock down, so majority of the things they learned to do was based on what they watched on television. For example my older sister wasn’t the kind of kid to always go outside to play with other kids. She loves to read and study her school work. When she did watch TV it was always something educational. She learned to cook by watching the cooking channel every day. When she wasn’t that she would be getting educated by watching the News. Television back in the day played the babysitters in the child’s childhood. Parents would sit there child in front of the television and go take care of the business. They knew the child would get distracted by the TV and wouldn’t notice that they were even gone. I came to realize that the bad fruits will be the ones to be criminals later on.
Levitt, Steven D., and Stephen J. Dubner. Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. New York: William Morrow, 2009. Print.
According to Steven D.Levitt there was a shark difference in crime trends between the cities in the United States who received signal in the mid 1940 compared to the people who had no television until decades later. Before television violent crime was extremely high in the cites who had TV earlier than the cites who had earlier than the cites who received signal late. An experiment was done were they compared the children who was born in the same cities in the 1950 and 1955. The city who had TV in 1954 compared to a age group who didn’t have TV for four years of their life to who didn’t have it there entire time. Levitt, Steven D. Superfreakonics Lp. Print
Television can play a good and bad side. It could be some type of entertainment and educational. It could have that effect on children where it opens there mind giving them the idea to have a wild imagination, to learn about several other cultures and to see ideas they wouldn’t see in their own society. Television programs with positive role models can inform the viewers to make positive choice in their lifestyle. At the same time kids could learn things on television that aren’t appreciate for them to learn. TV can influence kid’s behavior and their families in negative ways. Parents should decide how much and what their kids watch. TV could affect the way a child sleeps, the weight they can gain, there GPA in school and the way there behavior in general.
Before fox’s came about in October 1986, ABC, CBC and NBC were the biggest nationwide broadcasting. Today we have more choices of programs because of cable and satellite. We recently increase ease and perilous to watch our shows in reruns, recording them on our DVR, shifting the time by fast forwarding through the commercials and from the internet. Which decrease the amount of people who would watch the shows on a single broadcast? The mass media of the internet has attracted the TV watchers usually sit in front of the TV for hours. Some of these networks ran similar schedules. Most during the weekdays, after the local news. Then followed by a morning show like the weather, interviews and NBC’s today.
American television was so successful that it influence television network to show similar show in their country. As of today some of these shows still come on the air and people enjoy watching them. Reality television was the longest to exist in the United States. They are now starting to place ordinary people in talent contest, dance competition an any other unusual circumstances. Your usually American soap opera has been going for over 6ix decades. Ever since I was born or maybe even before that I have grew up watching my mother get all excited about her soaps. She doesn’t miss a day. If she feels like she will not make it to a TV in time before it comes on, She will make sure she tape it so when she comes home she can watch it. The way my mother feels about her soap is the way I feel about my show “The Game” on BET... The Game is like a black soap opera every time it ends it leaves you wondering what going to happen next or who will be leaving the show. Any time I miss an episode of the game I would go online to watch it on their website. I use the internet as my secondary source. If everyone was to miss the game when it came on a single broadcast everyone would just got on the internet to watch it and The television would start to loose there viewers. Out of the current seven soap opera five has been running for over forty years and is still alive. Your popular children’s television programs have moved to cable television with successful results. For instance sponge bob square pants, wizards of warly place, I Carly and several other kids and family programs. The problem is will these kids start to put their school work as a secondary choice instead of the main probity.
Based on my research these shows are influencing the viewers on what they should do and from what they should not do. Anytime they are about to do something that they wouldn’t want their audience to do. They tell them “please don’t try this at home”. But being a kid they would go ahead and do it anyways. Children aren’t trying to act rude or smart but it all about growing up and knowing your Nose and Yes’s. Yes it okay to watch this television show as long as you finish your homework. Maybe if the parents set some rules along with allowing their child to watch TV maybe the percent all over the world is different in the crime rate.
After watching years of television the viewer’s probably look at the TV as a secondary source. When they turn on the TV to hear the news. Some things are live and facts but other news can just be what they see and are basing it on. Today’s viewers look at the television as a distraction and to find out what is going on all over the world. If someone didn’t die then the news are forces on someone getting married and the aftermath? The media revolves around the television, the internet, newspapers, magazines’ and billboards and people in today’s society is so influence by the media ,not just children and television.
GENZEL, Bill. "Television during the 1950s and 1960s." The Wessels Living History Farm, the Story of Agricultural Innovation. 2007. 24 Apr. 2011 Web.
("Murder of Kitty Genovese." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 22 Apr. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese. Web.
"Television in the United States." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 18 Apr. 2011. Web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_the_United_States. Web
Levitt, Steven D., and Stephen J. Dubner. Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. New York: William Morrow, 2009. Print
Levitt, Steven D. Superfreakonics Lp. Print
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