4 Eron and Huesmann University of Michigan psychologists Leonard Eron and Rowell Huesmann have followed the viewing habits of a group of children for decades. They found that watching violence on television is the single factor most closely associated with aggressive behaviour-more than poverty, race, or parental behaviour. He found that children who watched many hours of violent television tended to be more aggressive in the playground and the classroom. Eron and Huesmann checked back with these students 11 and 22 years later. 5 Medved Michael Medved is a news host on us television who campaigns on the issue of screen violence.
Millions watch violent TV without becoming 'criminals'.
This is no more value that the argument that not all smokers get lung cancer. Annenberg School of Communication estimates that each night 350 characters appear on prime time TV and that 7 of them are murdered. We give the public what they want. Medved carried out an analysis of all films released between 1980 and 1992. He found that 'family' oriented films earned more than twice as much on average as violent films.