Impact on teenagers

Studies have proven that teenagers are the most prone to the influence of external sources. People of this age (of about 12 to 19) undergo the process of rapid development, both physically and mentally (the well known awkward age), as well as reappraisal of values. Moreover, people in this age tend to seek solitude and reevaluation of their egos. And here's where television can play the leading role in forming the personality. With its almost unlimited possibilities and its efficiency it is a reliable and easily accessible source of information for them. Unfortunately, for the last decades very little constructive proposals were made by TV producers to improve the process of education of young people. On the contrary, the commercial basis of all TV channels in the majority of European countries and the USE has led to the production of law-quality and aggression-promoting TV programs. Sometimes such programs even instruct them (not directly, but rather indirectly) how to do illegal things, steal, injure or even kill people. For example, in a TV show about criminals there can be in-depth information about how to make an explosive, what ingredients it needs and what technique should be used when making it. Even cartoons for very small children often propagate sudden enrichment, when main characters become millionaires in an instant. This doesn't mean that TV is completely aggressive-oriented medium today. But still, the amount of such information and aggression that we see today is unallowable.