When can we give back the clean sky to children and youth?

I am not talking about the air pollution. I am talking something as serious as air pollution, or even worse than air pollution. It is the violence in cartoon and sexy scenes in the MTV.

I think I don’t need to describe how popular the violence in cartoon and sexy scenes in the MTV nowadays. Fire and blood haven’t been rare in the cartoon. Bra, underwear, bikini and flirtation won’t surprise you if you see them in the MTV. Even, I，an adult feel uncomfortable when I saw the above scenes in the cartoon and MTV, let alone the children. However, children have no choice. “Children are our further, not the present, so children can’t vote”. Every time, when they open the TV, they are infused of these violence and eroticism. If they are luckily born in a responsible family, in which parents have time and patience to watch TV with them and guide them, then they may escape from these violence and eroticism bomb. However, unfortunately, some of the parents nowadays can’t accompany their children most of the time. TV has even served as a baby-sitter or supervisor in some families. Then unfortunately, children in those families are used to face with and even been “educated” with those violence and eroticism. Children are just like a piece of white paper. If they have gotten used to these violence and eroticism, they will think, this is the original fact of the world. They won’t protest and suspect it. They will totally absorb, remember, and even utilize it.

According to the Report of the Department of Canadian Heritage, “It is not the violence itself that makes the cartoons attractive to preschoolers, but the accompanying vivid production features. With this preference for cartoons, preschoolers are being exposed to a large number of violent acts in their viewing day. ” If the violence is not the main factors to attract the kids, but the “vivid production features”, why the cartoon producers will continually add the violence elements into the cartoon? Why they can’t produce some vivid production features without any violence? I doubt that, if it is because the adults themselves like violence cartoon, so they assume that children may like it too? I don’t know. I am really confused. But it seems that the cartoon producers never really listen to children’s voice seriously. And as what I said, children have gotten used to watch spreading violence and eroticism in the cartoon and MTV, so they won’t feel surprised and doubtful. And as long as the cartoon market still can earn money in this way, and temporarily, it did not cause any big problem, then everything goes on and on. A cartoon character goes on shooting his enemy, with blood spreading everywhere. A dance still footsies in MTV, only wearing a bikini.

I know it is impossible to clear all the violence and sexual elements in the cartoons and MTV, just as it is impossible that there is no pollution in the air. Once harm has begun, it is hard to clear and stop. But what I argue is that, if we can provide children more choices and decrease the violence and sexual elements in their programs? Children are our future. They may also be the cartoon or MTV producers in the future. Once they have gotten used to these violence and eroticism when they are small, they will on longer suspect or augur it. In that case, the violence and eroticism in the cartoon and MTV will only become worse and worse. Don’t forget, the so call media rule of law is made by man. They may be changed if we want. So don’t expect the law can control the trend of violence and eroticism in the media.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050201-113031-4293r.htm
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/research_documents/reports/violence/tv_violence_child.cfm
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/violence/effects_media_violence.cfm