A study of the 2000--2001 television season by the Parents Television Council showed that TV violence was up fully 70 percent from the previous season.
         

In November 2001, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported that children between 2 and 18 years of age spend 6.5 to 8 hours a day with TV, videotapes, movies, and video games.
         

The average young person, by age 18, has seen 200,000 acts of violence on television alone.
         

Of 10,000 hours of broadcast shows reviewed by the National Television Violence Study, 61 percent portrayed interpersonal violence, much of it in an entertaining or glamorized manner.
         

The highest proportion of violence was in children's programs; of all animated films produced in the United States between 1937 and 1999, 100 percent portrayed violence.
         

Researchers have noted that viewing of violent media productions can actually be as addictive as a drug.
         

They have also found a clear link between such viewing and aggressive behavior.