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time for brain development since electronic media can prevent children from exploring, playing and interacting with parents and others, which encourages learning and healthy physical and social development (KidsHealth.org).

In conclusion, parents should limit the number of hours their children spend in general in front of the TV. What is transmitted to people via the media is often only a question of money; in today's highly commercialized world, it is not the traditional values that shape TV programmes anymore. If some shows are viewed by millions of people every time they are aired, no wonder the leaders of a channel will not cancel a show that makes enormous amounts of money. As Richard Collins, James Curran, Nicholas Garnham, Paddy Scannell, Philip Schlesinger and Colin Sparks remark in their book Media, Culture and Society: A Critical Reader, 'TV companies make their money from selling audiences rather than programmes' (325). Clearly, it is all about business. Consequently, what is broadcasted will never be solely important values. Influenced by deeply emotional effects, be they positive or negative, youngsters are indeed exposed to the dangers of the media, but, question is, is it really that bad? Not at all. 'Despite the bias of the presumption of effects and the evidence drawn from metaanalyses, not all scholars agree that media have effects in all areas', not, for example, in children's cognitive development (Perse, Elizabeth M. 8). Aggression, crimes, and people with shocking behavior have existed so far, too, they were just never transmitted to the society by the media. Yes, there will always be some criminals following the patterns of certain movies in which murders and crimes take place, but that is just unavoidable. It is not the movies, video games, or bizarre TV shows that make criminals criminals, rather, they are already criminals in their minds, they just take ideas and inspiration from what they see. Murders and other crimes have much less to do with the media than it is thought. Similarly, the Columbine High School massacre (1999) was not carried out because of some video games or action movies, such a statement would be insane and ridiculous. The perpetrators of history's fourth bloodiest school massacre, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, did actually play video games all the time, they even took some patterns from the Doom series as enthusiasts, but, again, it is not the video games that made them killers but their mental disorders. They certainly watched TV and played video games, for they were young adults. 'It is difficult to imagine events more terrible than our young people deliberately killing each other”, says Jonathan L. Freedman in his book Media Violence and Its Effect on Aggression: Assessing the Scientific Evidence (3). According to him, after such an event many may say 'it was the parents' fault' or 'Satanism and witchcraft' (L. Freedman 3). Truth, however, is often much simpler. Was it for what we see every single day through the media, every second person would turn out to be a serial killer one day. If someone wants to take somebody's life, they will do so eventually. In fact, it is not a matter of visual influence at all. Who is responsible then for all those gruesome acts in the world is a hard question. I think nobody really is. Of course, criminals do deserve their punishments, no doubt about it, still, it is always easy to point at somebody, and say they are responsible for what ot