Outline of my speech in uni

TV VIOLENCE

INTRODUCTION

        i.            Attention grabber

Not only has the perpetuation of youth violence become an alarming issue in America, but also the fact that kids are shooting other kids with remarkable accuracy.  Michael Carneal, who shot eight times into a prayer group in Paducah, Kentucky in 1998, managed to get eight hits, although he'd never before shot an actual handgun.  Five of the victims were shot in the head and three in the upper torso.  Three died and one was paralyzed for life.

      ii.            Reveal topic

Today I would like to talk about tv violence.

    iii.            Relevance statement

Watching just one hour of television a day can make a person more violent towards others, according to a 25-year study. In some circumstances, TV watching increases the risk of violence by five times.

    iv.            Preview of main points

Standing here today, I will cover a brief of tv violence, children and tv violence, adults and violence, tv violence and real thing

BODY

In the first place, I will go through a brief knowledge of tv violence

Main point 1: Televised violence, both staged and real, has become a part of everyday life.

·        By the time they finish elementary school, the average child will have watched 8,000 televised murders and 100,000 televised acts of violence.

·        By the time that child reaches the age of 18, those numbers will have doubled.

·        Why is the American media showing more and more acts of staged and real-life violence? The answer is simple. The name of the game in television is to build an audience, and violence is an effective means to gain viewers

·        In an effort to boost ratings and compete for greater audience share, network and cable broadcast outlets have provided viewers with a steady and graphic dose of televised violence 

Strangely enough,  

Main point 2: children and tv violence

·        American children watch an average of four hours of television daily

·        Become “immune” or numb to the horror of violence

·        Gradually accept violence as way to solve problem

·        Imitate the violence they observed from tv

moving on to the next point,

Main point 3: Not only children, increasing violence in adults due to excessive tv watching.

·        Johnson found that 45 per cent of the men who had watched three hours or more at age 14 went on to commit an aggressive act against another person

·         just nine per cent of the men who had spent less than an hour in front of the tube

·        For women aged 30, the strongest TV predictor of violence was watching three hours of more at age 22.

·        Of these women, 17 per cent had committed an aggressive act, compared to none in the group watching less than an hour a day.

Lastly,

Main point 4: Does TV violence lead to the real thing?

·        the psychologists Craig A. Anderson and Brad J. Bushman found a statistically significant small-to-moderate-strength relationship between watching violent media and acts of aggression or violence later in life.

·        Robert J. Hancox showed that watching excessive amounts of TV as a child or adolescent — in which most of the content contains violence — was causally associated with antisocial behavior in early adulthood

·        The weight of the studies supports the position that exposure to media violence leads to aggression, desensitization toward violence and lack of sympathy for victims of violence, particularly in children.

CONCLUSION

I.                    Summary of main points

All in all my speech today was on

a)      a brief knowledge of tv violence,

b)      children and tv violence

c)      adults and tv violence

d)      tv violence and real thing

        II.                 Memorable concluding statement

Even if violent tv are conclusively found to cause real-life violence, we as a society may still decide that we are not willing to regulate violent content. That’s our right. But before we make that decision, we should rely on evidence, not instinct.