Nowadays,
censorship is very hot topic among people of all ages. Some of them are for
censorship and some are against it. Television is one of mass media, which
gives many influences to the people and their lives. Besides, many people think that censorship of
television programs is not necessary. However, I believe that television
programs should be censored for three reasons.
The first reason is protecting children from violence
scene. Most of television programs are created for children and exactly those
will give influence for them. Based on the survey that was done by Christian
Science Monitor (CSM) about how much the violence scene at television programs
influence children, 56% of 1.209 parents said that it was very influence, 26% influence,
5% not really influence, and 11% not influence. We can see from the result that
television programs truly influence children. On the other side, Robert Liebert
and Robert Baron said, “watching a violent program or scene made children more
willing be aggressors”. I do really agree with their opinion. Besides, several
years ago in Indonesia there was a child who killed his friend by imitating smack
down scene in cartoon program. It is an example of negative effect that should
be prevented. Therefore, television programs that are dangerous especially for
children need to be censored.
The second reason is avoiding people from sexual abuse. Nowadays,
most of television programs contain a lot of pornography
scene. Continuous
viewing of such programs is not good for viewers. Besides, RM Tedjo Baskoro, SH
(member of LSI) gave opinion, he said, “everywhere, there are television
programs that are often related to pornography scene, and those programs treat
every people especially for young generation”. As we know serial movie,
advertisement, video clip, even news program at television often talk about sex
cases that happen in society. Exactly, those kinds of television programs give
negative effects. In Jakarta, there are often sexual abuses that happen
such as rapes in public transportation.
It is one example that caused of pornography scene of television
programs that uncensored. Indeed, censorship of television programs especially
which contain a lot of pornography are needed to avoid those crime happen
again.
The third reason is giving a good moral value. As we
know, infotainment and reality show programs are more popular than another
program. Those programs are kind of uneducateded programs. Actually, we do not realize that those
programs have given bad effects and poisoned our brain. For example, most
teenagers imitate their favorite artists, and then it just makes them become
gossiper and talk something useless. Truly, those programs should be censored.
On the other side, Seto Mulyadi support censorship of infotainment and reality
show programs. He said, “Because television is friendly for children from
morning up to night, the negative effects from these programs will easily
influence them that we cannot avoid that”. Therefore, to avoid those effects
and give a good moral value, censorship is needed for infotainment and realty
show programs.
In
short, censorship of television programs is needed to avoid the negative
effects. Besides, it can protect children from violence, avoid people from
sexual abuse, and give a good moral value. In my opinion, I think censorship of
television programs is a good way to prevent of all of kind of bad effects that
can happen in around us.
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