My proposition: Television and other media have decreased the amount of time family members spend interacting with one another. Lack of communication results to lack of trust from parents and family member. Troubled teen program believes that this is one of the common factors of becoming a troubled teen. Peers and media are common outlets for them to release their anger, feelings and emotions. Increasingly, the media are shaping children's behavior and attitudes, images of themselves, and perceptions of the world.

I think you're wrong. Spending time with my siblings is only infuriating. Without media and my peers I'd have almost no way of venting my anger. If it is my family that is the thing I am angry at in the first place.

its no use talking to it its an advertiser. if you want to advertise go to the right section.

That's a fairly large slippery slope you have going there. While I find it true television may slightly decrease the amount of time people spend with their family, the rest is pure speculation.
One could argue that watching media and television gives a family something to talk about, such as the daily or national news and events.

P.S.
Go to the advertising section if you want people signing up for your program.

My proposition is that the media sucks, and nothing we can really do about it.

haha! my whole family works in television. its all full of bastards

but basically, yes it decreases the time spent with our familys, but it also provides a valuable source of information. i really dont think we even know what we'd do without television....
its a bit like the 'net, it provides information, but its got some negatives.
the rest of your post is specualtion...

its a slippy slope if you actually want to ban TV. and my parents would be out of a job

If you want to complain about limited time the family is spending, I think it is better to look at the family before the cause. By no means must the family have their children run rampant and unrestricted by video games, movies, etc.

It is the families option to regulate. If they don't, and the family so chooses to let the possibilities of problems increase, that be their problems, not the "media's."

thank you for all your responses. I appreciate it! This is my answer: If you'd notice the last sentence of my post (Increasingly, the media are shaping children's behavior and attitudes, images of themselves, and perceptions of the world.), I do not say there that "media" are shaping "negatively", "pessimitistically", "skeptically" or whatsoever children's behavior. It is a general and plain statement about media. I think what we can do here as parents is to help them understand what "consequences" the "negative" acts depicted by the media can have. Now, this is more direct and specific.

PS. Remember, this is just my "proposition" - the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.

well though I beleive the media sometimes covers the wrong things but remember the internet is media.

The family is the basic unit of the society. What a child behaves inside the home reflects when he goes out from the home. Therefore, every one is first influence inside his or her own home by , of course, parents before anything or anyone else. Parents have so much responsibilities in molding the behavior of his or her child. If the parent teaches his child the correct principles, whatever bad influences might come on his way he will not succumb to it. At the end of the day, it is not the influence of the media or society is powerful but his choice to respond to that influence.

Society and media are people and not things. They are like friends. Some are good and some are bad. They may bring good and bad effects in our lives and the lives of our children. What i want to advocate here is for us to be wise and careful in choosing.