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Results for television and violence (u.s.)
1 results foundAuthor: Parents Television Council Title: Dying to Entertain: Violence on Prime Time Broadcast TV 1998 to 2006 Summary: TV violence has become a paradox of sorts. Medical and social science have proven conclusively that children are adversely affected by exposure to it – yet millions of parents think nothing of letting their children watch C.S.I. or other, equally violent programs. Prominent leaders in the entertainment industry publicly decry violent entertainment – but then continue to produce and distribute it. Despite the widespread consensus that TV violence is a significant problem, it has become not only more frequent, but more graphic in recent years. Indeed, the television season that began in the fall of 2005 was one of the most violent in recent history — averaging 4.41 instances of violence per hour during prime time — an increase of 75% since the 1998 television season. Dying to Entertain is the PTC’s second examination of TV violence during prime time on the six major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, UPN and the WB). Using the previous report, TV Bloodbath (released in December 2003 and analyzing content from the 1998, 2000, and 2002 television seasons) as a baseline, the PTC discerned some longitudinal trends and qualitative differences over the past eight years. For this Special Report, PTC analysts reviewed programming from the first two weeks of the November, February and May sweeps during the 2003-2004, 2004-2005, and 2005-2006 television seasons for a total of 1,187.5 programming hours. MAJOR FINDINGS: Between 1998 and 2006: ● Violence increased in every time slot: ✔ Violence during the 8:00 p.m. Family Hour has increased by 45% ✔ Violence during the 9:00 p.m. hour has increased by 92% ✔ Violence during the 10:00 p.m. hour has increased by 167% ● ABC experienced the biggest increase in violent content overall. In 1998, ABC averaged .93 instances of violence per hour during prime time. By 2006, ABC was averaging 3.8 instances of violence per hour — an increase of 309%. ● Fox, the second-most violent network in 1998, experienced the smallest increase. Fox averaged 3.43 instances of violence per hour in 1998 and 3.84 instances of violence per hour by 2006 — an increase of only 12%. ● Violent scenes increasingly include a sexual element. Rapists, sexual predators and fetishists are cropping up with increasing frequency on prime time programs like Law and Order: S.V.U., C.S.I., C.S.I. Miami, C.S.I. New York, Medium, Crossing Jordan, Prison Break, E.R. and House. Details: Los Angeles: Parents Television Council, 2007. 24p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 5, 2013 at: http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/reports/violencestudy/DyingtoEntertain.pdf Year: 2007 Country: United States URL: http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/reports/violencestudy/DyingtoEntertain.pdf Shelf Number: 129517 Keywords: Mass MediaTelevision and Violence (U.S.) |