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Submitted by Muckel on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Media S Effect On Violence
You may think that those sexy sitcoms or violent dramas are just entertainment and shouldn't really have serious effects. For any single show that's probably correct, but for too many people, we're not talking about a single show every so often, and that is a problem. The repetition of violence causes children to become desensitized. The same thing happens to adults, but children are more vulnerable. It also holds true for explicit sexual content. In fact, relatively little exposure to pornographic material at an early age can significantly disturb a child and interact with their sleeping and other behaviors. It can also affect the way they interact socially with peers, as well as foster anxiety and fear in other situations. In the aftermath of the Columbine High School tragedy in Colorado, a broad national debate has developed to intervene in the American "culture of violence." While much of the blame can be placed upon the news itself, many other fingerprints are on the proverbial trigger of inadequate parenting, school security, and manipulative violence in film, video games, television, the internet and pop music.
More than society's messenger, more than a mirror of reality, and the electronic communication media collect and concentrate the planet's woes and deliver them into our living rooms each night. The seventy- five percent of Americans who watch TV news regularly are subjected to a substantial nightly dose of catastrophe. In the news, though, the blood is real. Some insist that media violence is harmless entertainment, escapist fare or cathartic diversion, or that people have a "taste for violence." Others, desensitized by hundreds of thousands of acts of violence they have seen on TV, deny the problem. Industry moguls bristle at any talk of regulating their bread-and-butter fare of mayhem, and reject the evidence of its harmful effects. Their views are self-serving and must be challenged. Journalists by now know that their...
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