Katherine Ellison, Pulitzer Prize winner, foreign correspondent for Knight-Ridder Newspapers, author of nonfiction books responds to violent internet cartoons in 2005 in The Washington Times.
She makes valid arguments against cartoon violence regarding her daughters. Her children had accessed the internet to watch commercials about Happy Tree Friends. The cartoon began as a cheery tune but quickly progressed into a vicious snap of a tree's neck, which allerted Ms, Ellison of the nature of the content.
Some would regard the cartoon commercial to a Tom & Jerry episode but it has no correlation. Tom & Jerry was humorous while never harming each other enough to cause death. Ellison is making her audience aware of the transcendence of information. Even though the happily violent commercial is not readily available to young children, it transcends to younger siblings. The younger sibling then laughed at the content beliving it to be funny when a tree had it's head snapped.
Ellison suggests that more internet supervision and that violent commercials never come into children sites. I agree with Ellison in that websites should be monitored to approve videos by age. There are plenty of parent supervisions that are not implemented. Of course, it is easy to argue that children are smart enough to bypass parental restrictions, but the larger goal in mind is to protect them from learning violence and other graphic media are normal and comedic.
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