1. I don't think that television itself is as big a deciding violence factor alone as economic poverty, bad schools and broken homes. I think that having a violent life path requires some combination of all of these things; kids who grow up ONLY watching violent programs on television are probably a lot less likely to be violent themselves than kids who watch violent programs on television, are beaten by their parents, and go to a school where violence and bullying is the norm.
2. The article states that promotions feature violence because they only have a very short time to capture the viewers attention. Violence and sex require the least amount of time to explain a plot, and are also to a lot of people the most interesting. I think that the largest reason they feature violence in promotions is because shows like sit-coms, soap-operas, and situation dramas like Law & Order can attract some viewers that wouldn't normally be interested in watching the show by prefacing it to sound like there's lots of scandalous sex and violence.
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