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There are more than five violent scenes in a n hour of prime time, and five murders a night.
There are 25 violent acts an hour in Saturday morning cartoons. (Stossel, 1997)
A survey by the Center for Media and Public Affairs that looked at all programming, including cable, in Washington, D.C., on April 7, 1994, counted 2,605 acts of violence that day, and the majority occurring early in the morning. (Stossel, 1997)
The average American child will have seen more than 8,000 murders and 100,000 other violent acts on television by the time he finishes elementary school (Stossel, 1997)
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1992, found that the typical American child spends 27 hours a week watching television and will witness 40,000 murders and 200,000 other violent acts by the age of 18. (Stossel, 1997)
Dennis Howitt reported that 26% of crime stories reported in the newspaper were about murder, and murder only represented 0.2% of all crimes committed. Theft stories covered 3% of the criminal activity reported and actually made up 36% of reported crimes. (Reber, Chang 2000)
In March 1998 in Los Angeles County there were 67 murders, 175 rapes and 4, 042 aggravated assaults. The Los Angeles times misrepresented the proportion of crimes reporting 24 murders, 3 rapes, and 39 assaults.
Americans spend fully one third of their free time with television.
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