Violence in the Media

Article 1: 

This article talks about how video game violence effects kids these days. “In a 2004 survey of pediatricians, over 98% believe that the media affect childhood aggression”. This to me means, Parents need to watch there kids, what they are watching or playing. “The economic benefits of more explicit violence became apparent when Nintendo and Sega both created versions of Mortal Kombat for their competing systems. Nintendo had toned down the blood and gore in their version, and the Sega Genesis version outsold Nintendo’s version three to one.”, People that our buying video games want the more blood and gore, which to me for some children is too much.  My beliefs have not changed because I believe that violence in video games causes violence and aggression.

Article 2:

Harvey Weinstein vowed to back away from making ultraviolent movies. Media Violence can get to be too much for a lot of people. Gun sale have gone up, but gun crimes have gone down. The media violence is messing with the minds of children. My Beliefs are that movies are movies, NOT real life. But there are some people that do not get that, and there are some parents allowing their children to watch these movies. I own many firearms, and I have never wanted to go kill or injure another person, but that is who I am, not all people are the same as me. Also Reservoir Dogs is a great movie, you might need to watch it a few times to understand the movie though.

Article 3:

The very first people that committed murder did not have books, TV, movies, or games. They did it all by themselves no pressure or watching it from anywhere. “We applaud the creation of a bomb whose sole purpose is to destroy all of mankind, and we grow up watching our president's brains splattered all over Texas. Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.” Why do we do this? Because its “News Worthy” or just the media controlling people, by only showing what they want people to see.

I believe that the media/news shows a skewed version of the news, they show what they want to let everyone know. The Media usually blows everything up, but really is not a huge deal.