Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

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The Effects Of Violence Programs On Indonesia Television

Along human’s life, there is no more beautiful and impressing thing than a childhood. Adults always keep it in their mind and they tell it happily with a pride. Recently, however, psychologists and socialists believe that childhood is facing a collapse and will just remain a story. In the future, children will not find their sweet childhood, which should be the most important thing to define their personality. By presenting programs which shows immorality and violence, Western mass media is now breaking the wall between childhood and adulthood. This phenomenon not only occurs in western countries but also in developing countries because of a strong infiltration of western media all over the world. In other words, today’s children are allowed to watch any television programs even the adult s. This, of course, will cause a bad impact for the children. Doctor Tabatabaei, an Iranian expert, said that the childhood is one of human’s phases, which lets its own capacity. Therefore, children physically and mentally cannot cope with adult’s conflicts and problems. Neil Postman, an American writer, wrote that there is no more border between childhood and adulthood so that there is no more children’s world.