Violence in the media
The media has exploited violent and unlawful acts entirely too much. Whether on television or the front page of the newspaper, stories of crimes and violence are broadcast in an almost glorified manner to our society, and more importantly our children. But where are the positive headlines that advertise the good actions taken by our world? Most of the time you will only find them in small print at the bottom of the page or at the end of a news broadcast. The media needs to focus more on the positive things that people do and less on who robbed a bank, killed forty people and then committed suicide. The bottom line is we need more of the right “positive reinforcement” in our media today. What is the “right positive reinforcement”? Well first lets define positive reinforcement. Positive reinforcement can be defined as rewarding a subject’s action with something that the subject views positively. For example, if “Joe” loves to eat candy, then Joe will do whatever will get him the candy. If Joe gets all A’s on his report card and thus is given candy in response to getting A’s, then Joe’s action of getting A’s has been “positively reinforced” by giving him what he wanted, the candy. This is an ex
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Approximate Word count = 1236
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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