Media, and its effects on the young.
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Little Andy sat transfixed in front of the television, watching 'Tom and Jerry'. Only five years old, the flashing images of Tom slipping on a banana that Jerry left for him makes him chuckle, then he lets out giggle as he sees Jerry pounding Tom on the head with a hammer. Meanwhile, his eleven-year-old brother, Billy, has his earphones on, listening to a song with lyrics that are unfathomably slurred amidst the clamor of a discord of electric guitars and drums. Christine, the oldest of the three, was in the bathroom, sticking her fingers down her throat, so that she could vomit what she ate, in order to be thin. It looks like the above scenario is a typical household; a bulimic teenager, an insensitive, isolated boy and a child who will grow up to be violent and anti-social... Or is it? The situation above is due to the influence they...


