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媒体已成为影响舆论的有力工具。媒体的影响对观众有着显著而危险的影响，尤其是青少年。在这种情况下，媒体有力量影响个人的身份、道德价值观和信仰的形成。事实上，媒体影响整个社会，因为它无处不在。然而，政府只应干预某些地区作为一种手段的安全目的。正如我们现在，现代媒体可以是一种经常被许多人使用的通信，从而忽略了风险，这可能涉及。媒体可以通过电视节目，卡通片，视频游戏，烟酒广告以及其他形式的媒体传播，如互联网。所有这些都可以毫无疑问地对孩子的生活产生巨大的影响。媒体在当今社会中的重要作用，尽到告知的人，虽然它已经创造了一个广泛的人群的不同观点；有的，反对将代表儿童保护和其他声称这些限制违反了言论自由的媒体内容的限制。

Media has become a powerful tool, which substantially influences the public opinion. The impact of media has a significant and dangerous effect among the audience, particularly on youth. In such cases, media has the power to influence the formation of the individual's identity, moral values and beliefs. In fact, media affects the entire society because today it is everywhere. However, government should only intervene in certain areas as a means of security purposes. As we now, modern media can be a kind of communication often used by many people, thus ignoring the risks that this might involve. Media can be spread by television shows, cartoons, video games, alcohol and tobacco advertisements, and other forms of media such as internet. All of these can have a great impact on the lives of children without any doubt. The media plays an important role in today's society as far as to inform the people, although it has created a wide range of different point of views among the population; some, opposing to placing limits on media content on behalf of children's protection and others claiming that these restrictions violate freedom of speech.

When it comes to television shows, the concern of people has been excessively on the rise because of the frequent violent content that the media portrays in a daily basis. Some take it too far due to their humor, profane language, and violence such as Family Guy. Those who have seen the show would agree that Family Guy it's the least kid-friendly cartoon out there. The show caused great controversy when just recently mocked Sara Palin and her son who has Down syndrome. Although, the episode did not make fun of Sara Pailin directly, it created a large controversy among people, especially for her family, thus, provoking Pailin's oldest daughter to respond to the matter on Facebook: 'If the writers of a particularly pathetic cartoon show thought they were being clever in mocking my brother and my family yesterday, they failed. All they proved is that they're heartless jerks.' In addition, allegations of anti- religious sentiments and insensitivity towards transgender people have been negatively criticized for its simplistic quality of animations in such program. Other shows have also been fearless when it comes to attacking anyone or anything.

Alcohol and tobacco advertisements should not be permitted on prime time TV because many children and teenagers are watching television at this time. By showing this commercials on prime time, youth is been manipulated into believing that this behaviors are socially acceptable, which is obviously wrong. Many children watch television alone without adult supervision which can help them understand that these are bad habits and that there is consequences to it. These types of commercials make alcohol and tobacco seem as something cool and a lot of kids may feel tempted to try these. Advertisement works, otherwise companies would not spend millions of dollars on ads and on celebrity endorsers to do these commercials which have shown to be effective with children and adolescents. Children especially, are very vulnerable to thi