Effects of Media Violence

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Children learn how to deal with relationships by what they see on TV. They see people having casual sex and using obscenity-laden language... I don't see how it could possibly be good for kids."- (Faye Steuer, professor of at Charleston College Charleston Post and Courier, August 25, 2005)This, is a view held by many and there is truth to it, but instead of completely bashing TV and other forms of media, we could simply use it for betterment. While there is many bad things in media today, we should use it as a tool to teach the younger generation right from wrong and better them simply by passing time in front of media. While people argue that media should be censored or further left open to obscene things is a question that will rage on, but why not use it as a tool? Many people feel that media should be censored. TV shouldn't show violence or Music shouldn't have any sort of expletives used in it.”Most violence on TV is presented in a manner that increases risk of harmful effects.” (Kunkel, TV Violence) “Those which would like it censored most likely have had a positive correlation between media's glorification of things that are generally right and that which someone has done. An example of a negative effect of TV violence on children is “A six year old boy was swinging his cat by the tail after watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. When asked why he was doing it he replied “What? It's just like Michealangelo”.” (Opposing Viewpoints, 164) While there are people that feel media should be censored, there are others who feel there shouldn't be any censorship at all. Without censorship though, anything can be on TV or the radio with no restriction and that definitely is not a good thing. With lack of censorship many horrible things could be placed on a kid's channel for instance in which would leave bad effects on youth minds. Instead of debating over

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