Censorship In Popular Culture

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Censorship in Popular Culture

Censorship is in all aspects of today’s popular culture. It has become a increasingly heated topic from which politics it seems will be affected in the not so distant future. A theme posed by groups is often to censor their oppositions speech or material because it simply opposes their views or is seen as potentially harmful in their eyes and they take it upon themselves to right the situation. Anti Christian themes are hot topics in today’s public school systems with literature, evolution, and sex education at the center of the spot light. The medias responsibility is larger than most people realize “ in the very act of selecting which stories to cover… by selecting which books and films to review, by selecting music to air- through all of these things the media institutions effectively define what is and is not important in our society ”(atheism). By having such an influence over a majority of people presents challenges for groups which desire to change public opinion because once labeled one way by the media it becomes extremely difficult to change public perception, if such a change is indeed at all possible.
The National Right to Life Committee says “ We cannot let a handful of network executives and Hollywood writers, actors, and directors poison America with their godless attitudes, which are anti-religion, anti-family, and anti-life” (atheism/ National). Censorship is indeed a critical part of managing peoples views yet when is it to much and where does the Media need to draw its lines. If we numb ourselves from everything in this world that is viewed as negative and potentially evil by nature then we cannot prepare our younger generations from the trials they will face in life. Yet showing too much may have the wrong affect on an individual in where he or she goes out and commits the immoral acts seen or heard about. We must find a middle ground where there is a line between ex...