Don’t let TV spoil our children

Sir,

Mr Spiros Anastasiades of Nicosia (‘Just too much shouting on TV’, letters, February 27) is absolutely right to voice his concern regarding, violence, shouting and aggressive gesturing on television. In the UK, we have suffered this ‘verbal abuse’ on our screens and have sadly witnessed children behaving in this loud, wild way, which I am personally convinced is due to the fact that even programmes for the very young have loud excitable presenters. It just seems to be the way it is now.

We don’t have a television in Cyprus precisely because we were tired of this trend in England and wanted a rest from it.

I was very upset to read that Cyprus could be going the same way. Please don’t let it happen. Your children are to important and they do learn from the television.

So television channel bosses please listen to Mr Anastasiades and don’t follow this stupid trend: be different!
Janice Barrett, Limassol

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