The Wrong Heroes

2 Pages 413 Words

Vegeta or Rooney?

Society today is full of children looking for a hero. It’s a sad day when those heroes are cartoons and action figures. The media always try to find the latest and dirtiest scoops about our football, baseball, basketball and even tennis players. Children hear these scoops everywhere. From TV, newspapers and the Internet sportsmen are portrayed as bad people. Society needs heroes if it wants its children to look up to someone worthy. Rather than Buzz Lightyear and G.I. Joe, the children could be looking up to Michael Jordan and John Elway. If the media stopped sticking their nose in everyone’s business, we would have more heroes to look up to. Children should look up to sports figures despite their crimes. Parents are constantly ranting on about how Brett Favre can catch a ball. Children should be able to look up to those people without disappointment.

No one is perfect. So, why must media show the world that Emmit Smith stole something or got caught doing drugs? It is the sports player prerogative what they wish to do. For the children’s sake the media should stop making everyone look bad. Children look up to parents. So, why would the media not find out everything about them and put it on TV? Let’s take away more heroes! The media already fool us enough. Maybe, they will think about making us fools in a better way. The media should use our naive ness to make people look heroic. Instead, they trash any hope we or our children have in finding someone worthy of heroism.

Most television viewers are children; mainly cartoon and sports. Kids remember cartoon characters better than sport’s figures. Yes, the pikachu fights better and has special powers. If TV got sport’s figures to appear more interesting and worthy of heroism, they would be more likely to look up to them. Instead, children run around punching and pushing eachother. Because they would rather be Vegeta from Dragon...