Small screen and big violence
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Children between four to fourteen years are watching a lot of TV-and a great deal of violent TV at that. A TV columnist, who was a part of a study on the subject, she is reports on how a young girl in city her routine.
``when I get up after an afternoon nap, I watch my favorite program at 6 pm- small wonder, and then from 6.30 pm, there is Disney hour. At 7.30 pm, I turn on the TV again and watch documentary `importance part’. Then at 8 O’ clock, there are serials like `side house’ at 8.30 pm, there is a suspense episode `who is he’, but t watch it. At 9 O’ clock, there’s songs program, then children program and some... I make a pint to watch those’’.
In the space of five and half hours, she watches eight programs in six genres: Hindi comedy, travel program, serial, suspense, cinema trials, drama, quiz, and family soap. During a commercial break, she makes a telephone call, or plays a video game. Food cooking eats a meal. She will sleep at approximately 11 to 11.30 pm. And rise the next day between 6.30 to 7 am. For another day is, of school-and television. She’s a familiar figure, this girl. Last year, when we met her in the blistering heat city, we were in the middle of a five-city study on children conducted by one Survey Company. We met many children like her. In four major cites girls and boys in the six to fourteen age groups, from different communities and specking many languages, watch the same TV programs and play the same video and computer games. The findings will be made public in New Delhi.
We were expecting that things would be different with different sections of society but we found that they were all more all more or less uniform. We were surprised that even boys like soaps dealing with adult, family dramas. Some proud mothers told us that, their sons `know everything’ about the drama shows.
Then our data indicated that 50% of children’s program preferences- boys and girls-were adult family dramas. We hadn’t suspected boy’s involvement with family dramas!
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