ABSTRACT
The industry's point of view is that the content of television is a series of programs, divided into types, shown at different times of the day and night, and appealing to certain members of the audience. The location of the programming categories varies quite a bit over the day and the week. Violence is not the only distortion on television, it is just the most obvious and the most extensively studied. This chapter considers the evidence regarding the content of television and these various distortions. Various content analyses have shown that although the biggest lie is about violence, both the amount and the character of it, this is not the only lie told by television. With the technique of content analysis we learn how much more violence there is on television than in everyday life, and something about when it occurs, who is involved, and against whom the violence is directed.
