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/^t/A lot is heard about the harmful effects of programmes on children. We are afraid that all that nonsense they watch might desensitize them to real-life horrors, make them vicious, shallow, less responsible and generally sloppy about life and death. But is there any convincing piece of evidence that television really affects our psyche? It is claimed that children spend more time in front of TV sets than in the classroom and that their heads are full of TV - yes, but that is all, just TV! Sport, news, shows, thrillers and soap operas - these seem to occupy us only for as long as they are on. The violence children watch is Tv violence and I believe it does not brutalise them to the point where they cannot grieve the loss of a pet, or be shocked at any real acts of violence around them.