Violence in the media

Article 1
The first article kind of caught me off guard. The part talking about how parents would guard their children from real life violence but could care less about violence they would see on the news or in video games kind of surprised me. I would have thought that if you didn't want your child to be exposed to violence, you wouldn't expose them to it in any fashion. I especially wouldn't like my child seeing anything like whats in the video game "Soldier of Fortune", where the opposing characters arm would get blown off leaving "exposed bone" and "blood rushing from the wound". Another thing that I found interesting in the article was the fact that the ratings system actually helped the video game industry out in a sense. I would have figured that it would help parents understand that this type of video game is not suitable for my child, instead of parents thinking oh I saw this in the news, I should get it. With all this being said, I agree with some of the articles points, but I would have to say that I disagree with the articles main point of children being more aggressive because they saw it in a video game. I think in some instances this might be the case, but despite the research done, I don't think there is a direct correlation between video game violence and how a child acts, I think there are other things that factor into this, like the child's background etc. 

Article 2
Let me start this out by saying I have no idea who  Harvey Weinstein is, and the only movie talked about in this article that I have seen is "Djengo Unchained". Anyways, I think it is a good thing that Weinstein is trying to stand up against violent films and get people talking and trying to get people to take action. I don't really agree with him because I don' think that the root of all violence is coming from violence that we absorb through the media, but, good for him. I do however like the analogy made by the writer of this article about whiskey and hamburgers. I totally agree with him, media violence won't bring about the end of the world if you witness it in moderate amounts, but I could see where watching it everyday, every hour could possibly make you more prone to going crazy and being a violent person. But also at the same time we are all basically exposed to the same amount of media violence in one way or another and only a very small amount of us turn out to be another statistic. Overall on the topic of media in the violence I would have to say that I am on the fence as to if violence is our fault and if it is really violence in the media making us act so irrationally at certain points.

Article 3
This article was probably my favorite out of the three. I love how it addressed the fact that its not our society's actions changing, its just how we televise and broadcast everything that is changing. This is also the one article that I would back 100%, it gets a little dark and grim sometimes when he vocalizes how he sees the world, but overall this article really dug in deep about whats wrong with our society. For instance as mentioned in the article, the fact that we blow up these horrible actions and make them bigger than life, we turn the culprit into a star, plaster his or her picture all over news papers, TV, magazines etc. and all the while we are looking for some to point the finger at, because his actions were justified, and it was so and so's fault for leading them in the wrong direction. Overall this article helped me determine and strengthen my view point on this subject, which is we need to stop turning these horrible things and people into idols, stop trying to point a finger at other individual people, when really it is us as a whole that each and everyone of us is contributing to.