Part one of term paper
The regulation of children's television programming has been a hot topic over the last couple of years. There was a segment on the television show, “20/20”, September 27, 1996 entitled “Addicted to the Tube” with John Stossel as the reporter. Mr. Stossel relayed a statistic which stated that children watch on the average twenty hou ...

Part two of term paper
... also showed that by watching too much television and exposure to excessive violence, children and grownups alike develop “Mean World Syndrome” where people are afraid to go out. So they stay in the house and watch more television. Television has a very powerful effect - just look at the power of commercials. While it is a positive step that the government is trying to regulate television programming, it is still the parents' job to monitor what children watch. With the wide range of program ...