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Clearly, we need to head the warnings that are given from these reports to protect our society. Several studies and reports show that videogames also stimulate bad behavior. An article from “New Scientist” shows that “Unequivocal evidence from a wide variety of studies show that in the short term, exposing children to violence in movies, TV, video games, and music increases physical and verbal aggression” (“Bad Influence”, web). This negative influence is going to have a huge change on how kids and teenagers act towards individuals. The International Journal of Phycology says that, “Adolescents who play more mature rated games were more likely to engage in b... ... middle of paper ... ...ial skills when compared to students not addicted to games” (Boyce,web).

Media: Source of Today's Violence? In recent years, intense scrutiny has come upon the entertainment industry with critics claiming that it has great influence on the minds of today’s youth. But, what exactly are the effects of such an influence? Certain people have exaggerated the effects that it plays on children. Many people, including government officials, have singled out television, video games, and movies as itthe cause of some types of violence simply because it is an easy target for laying the blame.

Media violence negatively affects society because it influences the imitation of aggressive behavior. Studies have shown that playing a large amount of violent video games, movies, and listening to violent aggressive music may come off as a non-threatening form of entertainment but it can be very damaging and harmful to a person’s health. Violent thoughts grip the mind of even the most intelligent person, with that people fall victim to violent activity. “ For at least two decades experts have warned that television, movies, and other entertainment media are desensitizing young people to violence and death.”(Reisman). Reisman is stating that younger adolescents are more influenced to perform violent activity after playing a violent video game than a mature adult.

Do violent media produce our youth commit violence. While people believe this I disagree and realize it is just a scapegoat, and believe the previous article state that media helps us deal with negative emotions that humans feels. For people at one time will feel rage or anger and learning how to control these emotions is an important segment of growing up. It is dangerous to hide these feelings and pretend that they don 't against. For then when they pop up in life we will not be able to control our action and that can lead to violence.

Thou Media as proved to be beneficial by educating, entertaining and informing us, it has also have its downfall, to cause many bad influences to the younger audience. Media has influenced us to conduct bad behavior, breed violence among teens and fear to the public, thus causing a lot of negative conflicts among ourselves. Television, Music, Internet, and more, are just some of the media exposure that needs to be censored and controlled. Media needs to be restricted, so that it doesn’t expose certain content to the wrong audience. Therefore media should be censored, so that we are able to protect our children from certain media exposure.

While the celebrities are hurt due to rumors that are spread through the press, the fans see their celebrities using drugs to escape the their pain. Seeing someone they use as a role model using drugs, they mimic them and hurt themselves in the process. Media needs to be censored to a certain point so that others are not ... ... middle of paper ... ...alf nude in music videos, children and teens what to copy this in order to fit in at school and in public. Television shows, literature, video games, and magazines are all types of media that children and teens have daily access to. Subjected to such inappropriate things could influence the way children act and react to daily things such as school.

In the movie, “A Clockwork Orange,” the character was given negative reinforcement whenever he sees acts of violence shown to him on television. Eventually, he becomes repulsed by it and feels ill every time he sees or thinks of committing an act of violence. I think television and violent games are having a reverse effect on America’s youth. Violence is glorified in the mass media, thus youth become to associate killing with entertainment, they see violence as the “manly” thing to do, and they see how violence on television often goes unpunished. I feel this is a cause of youth violence because of the desensitizing nature of violence on television.

“In contrast, women’s belief decreased and they felt that men were coming on too strong and being too aggressive (Rense.com).” Videos games are also part of violent media. They are basically games where you rob, kill and they say a lot of bad words. This games make the player feel pleasure and happiness when they make a harm to someone in the game or a person in real life. Kids in the age of 10 to 17 are the ones who more attractive to games.. Many shoot outs and robs have been occurring society has been blaming violent video games for this.

Violence on television can be harmful in more ways than one. On the one hand, kids will imitate what they watch, but kids are also very easily brainwashed. Children may get a false impression of what the world is really like. If all the children see is violence on television, then, of course, the children will be a little apprehensive about the world. All of the violence could also m... ... middle of paper ... ...e lack of exercise shows for children.

However, how would this revamping of ratings occur? This seems overly ambitious and hard to achieve. “Violence and Suffering in Television News: Toward a Broader Conception of Harmful Television Content for Children” and “Report of the Media Violence Commission” both showed the possible effects violence has on children and adults alike. Children react emotionally and imitatively to violence on television news, and adults react aggressively to being frequently exposed to violence. The effects of violence can vary from person to person; there will be no certain way a person will behave based on what they see, because every person is different.