What's Up Doc?

I read the article What's Up Doc? A Bloody Outrage, That's What by Katherine Ellison.  This article explains how the violent games and the Internet are desensitizing children.  She begins the article by telling how she came home to her 6-year-old watching an Internet cartoon called Happy Tree Friends.  If anyone had seen this show, they would know how graphic it really is.  To someone who hasn't see it, the show sounds like a children's cartoon, and even has happy, cheery music to start out with.  It's not until you actually fully watch to see just how brutal it really is.  Ellison states how hard it is to keep kids away from shows like this when their peers are watching them too.  She also goes into the fact that advertisers are making so much money from how many people watching them repeatedly.  Ironically, Happy Tree Friends started out as a show against media violence.  It's really sad to see what the creators have done just to earn some money.  You know it's bad when the executive producer won't even let his children watch it.  I do believe the Internet has so much impact on kids, but when parents are too busy working it's hard to watch their every move to prevent them from seeing graphic cartoons.  If they won't take this show off the Internet, then I think the cartoons should at least be blocked for anyone under a certain age.  In the end, though, it is ultimately the parent's responsibility to keep track of what their children watch either on T.V. or on the Internet.