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How Should Television be Regulated

After doing some research on regulating television programs, I found that television is always used as a commercial tool to spread information, which concludes all sorts of discussion and arguments. Some people think that indecency and other immoral behaviors pervade television should be restricted. Other people have a different point of view that televised indecency should not be censored. People with different ideas on television have complete comprehension on television. To separately study on these ideas, I guess both of them are logical and credible. The discussion on whether to regulate the television will continue.
During the wartime (to Iraq), polls showed that most Americans believe the media should be restricted. The ABC News poll on January 16, 2003 showed that 67% of sample agree with the idea that the government should be allowed to stop the media from disclosing military secrets (Cramer, 2004). Some Arab TV stations showed pictures of the dead and injured, while broadcasters like CNN omitted the gratuitous pictures because they believed the war itself was horror enough to be portrayed without specific images (Cramer, 2004). The war is scary, the television can make it more scary and horror to the audience. Emotional chains are powerful, whether the government regulates the show.
These controversial questions are not relevant to the most tense problems such as budget deficit, health care, and global warming. Even though the congress does not like to pay attention to it, there should be someone stand out and do something.
I would like to have a survey at school if I am lucky enouth to find interviewers and have enough time to work on it.



Reference
1. Arlia, E. (2004). I Media Morality: Does It Even Exist? Retrieved from www.cwfa.org
2. Saltzman, J. (2004). Why Can't You Say--or Show--That on TV? USA Today, vol. 132, May 2004, pp. 75.
3. Cramer, C. (2003). Wall-to-Wall War and the Image Problem Challenging Broadcasters and Advertisers; CNN's Chris Cramer on the Editorial and Ethical Dilemmas Faced by TV News Channels, Independent on Sunday, April 6, 2003, pp. 8.
4. Carroll, Jamuna. (2006). Television Opposing Viewpoints. Detroit, New York, San Francisco.