Kids and Media
"What's the big deal?" Cartman asks. "It doesn't hurt anybody." "Fu**-fu**ety-fu**-fu**-fu**" (South). Actually it does hurt somebody. Each and every day kids spend hours perched in front of the television, watching and playing everything that they can get their hands on. What they don't realize is that every passing moment that they sit in front of that magic box their brains are being implanted with unwanted information. Information that may be detrimental to their behavior and their lifestyle. Media is defined as including television, radio, newspapers, magazines, video games, and the computer. Children use these means of communication on a daily basis thus increasing the influence that media has on them. The average American child spends five hours and 29 minutes a day using media (Kiesewetter). That's one minute less than the daily minimum instructional time for Ohio secondary schools (Kiesewetter). There is something wrong with this picture. Children......
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