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Although many people especially those who owns television channels or are producers of some television programme for example, say that the media do not affects the behaviour or young people, the truth is that young people are the living proof of the influence that the media have on adolescents and children. You have just to look at them and pay attention to their speech and behaviour to see the effects of television on them.
On the one hand we have the oppinion of those who live from the television and cinema bussinesses, their argument is that it is the parents` responsability to decide what their children should watch. But the main problem with this argument is that this control over children is quite difficult to do in this age of working parents and independent young people.
As young people are the ones whospend more time watching television or going to the cinema, they tend to consume almost every thing that the media try to sell and they also tend to acquire the fashion trends, speech, and behaviour that the media show.
On the other hand we have the oppinion of parents and school teachers about the influence of television on children and teenagers. It is common in school playgrounds to see the violent behaviour of children since they are quite young, their games almost always consist of fightings that immitate the cartoons and children programmes that they watch. These games many times end up with a kid hurt by some other. In the same way it is commonly used by teenagers a quite violent and unrespectful vocabulary to talk to their peers, that is predominant in many television programmes nowadays.
Another important factor that reflects media influence is for instance the way in which young people dress and the hairstyle that they adopt, which are almost always connected with the sort of music they listen at and the programmes they watch.
In conclusion the education and the controlling of the content which young people are exposed through the media is a responsability shared by both parents and the media. Due to this bussiness men and producer people should acknowledge the great power of influence that they have over young people and they should grade the levels of violence, the kind of vocabulary and the content that among other things are shown in television.
And it is also very important that parents do as much as possible to control and limit their children while making use of the media, especially when they watch television.