Through the use of television, many different audiences can be reached, and news and other information can be transmitted to them. Television impacts the way we view our society and culture, it is able to teach us about what is going on in the world around us, or can be simply a form of entertainment. The media is the primary cause of violence today; it is responsible for many violent outcomes that have happened and leads to children having harmful lifelong consequences. Some people do not believe the media influences violence. According to Richard Rhodes in his essay “Hollow Claims about Fantasy Violence,” he argues that there is no link between exposure to media violence and the development of violent behavior.
For others, it may simply be a fascination with the outbreak of paranoia that suffuses the play—the blind panic that, in our age, often seems to sit at the dim edges of consciousness. Certainly its political implications are the central issue for many people;the Salem interrogations turn out to be eerily exact models of those yet to come in Stalin's Russia, Pinochet's Chile, Mao's China, and other regimes.” (pp 5-6) This quote talks about the many different ways people think of the book to be. Some people believe it is a testimony of children accusing adults of sexual abuse, some think it may be a fascination with the outbreak of paranoia that gradually
05 March 2014 Peters’ Censorship of Violence in Popular Entertainment Unjustified In Roberts Peters’ article “Censorship of Violence in Popular Entertainment Is Justified”, he writes about his personal concerns and his personal solutions to combat obscenity and uphold decency standards in the media. He believes that due to the many graphic and violent depictions in TV, films, music/RAP, video and computer games, the children in present society are easily influenced into acting out the media violence and turning it into real life violence. He believes that there are four main problems with media violence. The first problem is that is too much of it. The glut of media violence desensitizes viewers and contributes to the “mean world syndrome.” A second problem with media violence is that it can be easily imitated.
Media exposure magnifies events, campaigns, and causes, and both terrorists and governments attempt to manipulate reports so that they are portrayed in a favorable light. In the second, the media plays a major role in creating all social definition of terrorism. It can globalize a local event or personalize a global event on a local level. In the third, the World Wide Web has become conduit for propaganda and communication. In any form, terrorism sends a message.
Studies show that areas where alcohol is more accessible have a high rate of street and domestic violence. The most violent crimes committed are alcohol related. Alcohol abuse has been linked to the growing rate of child neglect and abuse, people taking time off from work, and trouble with the law. The misuse of alcohol claims the lives of many Australian men and women. A study conducted in 2004 showed that 3,100 people die each year and 72, 000 are hospitalized due to alcohol.
For 15–24 year olds, homicide is the second leading cause of death and claims more than 8,500 lives each year; suicide is the third leading cause of death among this group and claims 4,140 lives each year. (cdc.gov.) violent behavior is experienced more by male adolescents than their female peers. Males are much more likely to have been in a physical fight and be threatened/injured with a weapon. In addition, adolescent males are also more likely to carry a weapon.
Scientists have tried to explain why children are so amused by a big glowing box and the action that takes place within it. Research shows that television is a major source of violence for children. This research shows us that violence appeals to every audience, including children. The effects have been seen in a number of cases. One example, from Alabama, was when a nine-year-old boy received a bad report card from his teacher.
The videos are made in a way that help make people better aware of the affects these harmful substances can have on anyone’s life. These speakers and authors were helpful in being informative not just doing the “Hollywood gossip talk”. This gossip that goes around in the world only makes the situation harder on
Since kids are also watch tv, parents have more concerns of the way there kids think about violence they see, read or hear. Also the media violence can affect people in many ways.Some people start having serious fears of them being victims in real life. However, there are researchers that say they have discovered that when they show violence on television it shows children to be not be so sensitive to pain and suffering of other people. Crime drama has become one of the most popular TV genres in our society, taking up almost 20% of prime time. People like these dramas because they deal with themes and issues that they know from news and current events.Also important as the themes and issues that the dramas deal with are the things the characters care about and the way they act.
Similarly in Law& Order, shootings, murders and rapes are constant factors of the show. Also, with movies like Kill Bill and Star Wars, the title alone is enough to communicate that they contain violent scenes. It has been estimated that by the time an average child leaves elementary school, he or she will have witnessed 8,000 murders and over 100,000 other acts of violence on television alone and by the time that child is 18 years of age, he or she will have witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 40,000 murders. Television teaches viewers, especially young viewers who have difficulty discriminating between real life and fantasy, that violence is the accepted way we solve