Media Violence

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up, approximately thirteen years of the average person will have been spent watching television programs. With evidence this alarming, the government might have to put a general warning before each programming claiming it may take years from your life away; this is how powerful this form of entertainment has become. When a breaking news story flashes across the screen, is it normally about community gatherings and fund-raising or a criminal shown committing violence? Yes, that is correct, the news gives a majority of it’s air time to shocking crimes. What is perplexing is why 84% of these stories contain only the act of violence, no in-depth coverage as to the circumstances (Torr 30). This kind of news is no longer news at all, but rather reality entertainment. One study on has shown that over half of the population feels there is more violence in today’s society than twenty years ago.(Torr 30). This is untrue, so why would people think crime is increasing? The news causes false insecurity just like a man in a theater yelling FIRE! (Gerdes 100) News and television are not to be totally blamed because there are various media that effect us just as much such as movies, fashion, games, technology, and printed material (Torr 21).
Imagine an uptight conservative politician raising our children and teaching them only what his narrow mind thinks. How would this child grow up? Just as his father taught him to. This comparison is simply stating that America’s youth are growing up on MTV, Comedy Central, and Fox. Watching as much TV as Americans do, it is relevant to state that they learn some, if not all of their values and morals from actors on a twenty-inch screen. With violence making appearances an average of five times per hour, it is safe to assume that the concept of violence is learned ...