Do you believe that television and the Internet creates a damaging and alienating window on the world? The average American child will have watched 8,000 murders on television by the age of twelve. (George Gerbner)
Television, Gerbner believes, is modern-day religion. It presents a coherent vision of the world. And this vision of the world, he says, is violent, mean, repressive, dangerous -- and inaccurate. It breeds what fear and resentment mixed with economic frustration can lead to -- the undermining of democracy.
This is an assignment for school on Cultivation Theory. Please help me out and make a comment.

The FCC controls television but what about the Internet. Children have access to much worse forms of violent and negative media. Will this create a much more violent society. When television became popular in 1955 there was a huge spike in murders and violent crimes. What will the Internet do to our children? One example is flash mobs. There are gangs of teens flash mobbing stores and robbing and beating people. They video tape themselves and put it on the Internet.

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97may/gerbner.htm
http://www.aber.ac.uk/medi​a/Documents/short/cultiv.h​tml

This is posted for an assignment for my Media Studies class.