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http://www.pamf.org/teen/life/bodyimage/media.html#School

In this website, I found some extremely helpful ideas and facts about the media. I learned that the media negatively affects teenagers by school, obesity, advertising and commercials, stereotypes, violence, and sex. At the bottom of this web site, it gives you ways that you can stop all these negative effects from happening, such as limiting the amount of time while watching television, do not eat while watching television, do not do your homework while watching television, when you see an advertisement, think if the product is truly realistic or not, and many more helpful hints.

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/weird/kids2/effect_5.html

Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, a West Point military psychologist, says that violent television and video games play a significant role on the youth killings. They condition children to become violent without teaching them the consequences. He also wrote a book that is called On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. He discusses the way people can overcome the feeling to avoid killings with Gloria DeGaetano, who has written Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill. According to them, thirty years of scientific studies support violent programs have a huge impact of children. While the murder rate doubled from 1957 and 1992, the aggravated assault rate has multiplied many times more.

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/parents/television/tv_impact_kids.cfm

According to this website, television can affect learning and school performance if it cuts into the time kids need for activities crucial to healthy mental and physical development. Also, according to researchers, viewers feel an instant sense of relaxation when they start to watch television. When the television turns off, that relaxation immediately goes away. Kids are bombarded with sexual messages all throughout the media. Parents are worried if it’s too much. In the 2001 study from the Kaiser Family Foundation, entitled on Sex on TV, studies have shown that three out of four prime shows with sexual references have 84% contain sexual content, 10% reference safe sex, and in the shows that have teen sexual content, 17% contain messages about safe and responsible sex.

http://www.child.net/articles/television/

This article provides very helpful tips for teenagers. For the problem of obesity, there are actual exercise programs on television that can help teenagers and people of all ages get active without even leaving their living room. Just sitting in front of the television for hours can cause an increase in laziness, and these programs can decrease the laziness in teenagers. This website is promoting teenagers to get up off their couch and find a hobby at school instead of watching television where problems can occur.