media violence, change or maintain Options

[Saeglopur]

Media influences many people in our society today - especially the teenage generation of today. People who want change the violence in the media said agression in children is usually influenced by the violence in the media. While those you want to maintain it say that the parents of the children need better control over what their children are watching. Should we change the media to be less violent or should we maintain it because we obviously know what's entertainment and what's not?

[fameONE]

The media is responsible for influence on American society but the media isn't the cause for all that's wrong in the world. If they show a guy getting his brains laid out on the concrete on NYPD Blue, then they should show some of the more unpleasant war coverage or acts of crime caught on tape during the nightly news. Don't make it a double standard. Regardless of what purpose it serves, violence is violence. A kid sees an American soldier with an M16 unloading clips of hollowpoint tracers through Iraqis and wants to do the same. That same kid sees a cop shoot a drug dealer with a 9. What's the difference? It's still violence and the media is still the influence. Honestly, I don't much believe in censorship (although I do believe in protecting impressionable minds) so I'd have to support violence in the media. It's a two way street.