Television Standards Television is a tremendously powerful medium that educates and enlightens, but it can also be a destructive force that can be sabotaging the proper behaviour and values parents around the world are trying to teach their children. The question of whether television standards are declining is an important issue because television entertainment was once viewed as the instrument that brought families together, but now, uncalled-for violence, sex, and indecent language on television are having a terrible impact on the youth of the world. This essay will consider arguments for having violence on television and point to some of the problems with these views. Finally, it will then address reasons of why television should cut out the violence, sex, and offensive language and become family television like the past.
It has been argued that violence on television is portrayed as it happens in our neighbourhoods where we live, so it should be shown as such to give a better understanding of our world, so that people realize that is how the world works.
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