Entry nº 37

The influence of televisión

Communication media have un impresive influence on the young generation. The most influencial is the power of what is shown in television especially on children because they reproduce every thing they hear and they immitate what they watch in cartoons and films.
It is very common to see children playing at the school games where they play the role of some cartoon character such as `The Power Rangers´, and the game will consist on fighting each other or at least pretend to be fighting. One consequence of this is that what may be harmless sometimes ends with some child hurted by another while playing these games.
Television as the main source of entertainment and information around the globe it has much responsability in the education of the younger generation.
The current problem with television is that it has been controlled by commerce and the business of making money no matter how, so that this has turned into a commercial and publishing site where through advertisements any sort of product is offered.
But the most important problem that has to do with the influence of television is in one hand the high level of violence shown in movies and many programs, especially children programs and cartoons that have a strong influence on children`s behaviour.
In the other hand, the problem of the sexual content that many programs have, from documentaries and entretainment programs to soap operas. It is very difficult for parents to control what their children watch because sometimes this sexual images are shown even at lunch time, this is even much more difficult for those families in which both parent have to work and stay many hours away from home.
That is why I think that all chanel television owners must bear in mind that television can spoil our children as well as help educating them and a great responsability for what children and teenanger watch on television is on their hands.