In a typical week, there are nearly 400 episodes of violence that are considered high risk for teens. Most violence on television remains sanitized. Violence is typically shown with little or no harm to the victim. In fact, more than half of the violent incidents on television depict no physical injury or pain to the victim. Media violence can cultivate fearful or pessimistic attitudes in children about the non-television world.
Media violence can desensitise children to real world and fantasy violence.
Each year, most children spend about 1500 hours in front of the TV and 900 hours in the classroom. Academic Press, 1986. Huesmann, L.R. Violence in the mass media, paper presented at the Third International Conference on Film Regulation, London, England, 1992. Huston, A.C., et al. The role of television in American society.