| Many of the potential interventions suggested in the literature are on a national scale or are directed at the media industry. Such interventions include creating a satisfactory rating system for television programming (Heath, Bresolin, & Rinaldi, 1989), or increasing the amount of educational television (Kunkel, 1998). Hughes and Hasbrouck (1996) note how difficult it is to regulate the amount of violence on television. They suggest focusing efforts instead on trying to increase the amount of prosocial programming, which could be facilitated by more governmental funding directed to this purpose. Public awareness of the influence of television on children’s social and cognitive development could help in promoting prosocial programming, but the effectiveness of current public education efforts by organizations (i.e., Action for Children’s Television, Center for Media Education) has not yet been studied (Hughes & Hasbrouck, 1996). |
