Dec 21, 2009

Mass Media | Chapter 1 Preface

Nearly forty years after Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton Minow referred to television as a “vast wasteland,” the effect of television’s influence on society continues to be of great concern. Many people believe that television has a corrosive effect on the nation’s moral fabric and contributes to social problems—especially violence. For example, the American Psychological Association reports that American children witness 8,000 murders and 100,000 violent acts on television before they graduate from elementary school. Numerous studies have been done in an...