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Misconceptions of Media Violence
Summary: Explores the relationship between pop culture and violent behavior. Questions if exposure to violent images in the media is responsible for actual violence.
The sense of what is right and wrong comes from within and is not influenced by what
is showed on television, or any other source of media for that matter. Advertising a product
such as a George Forman grill is one thing... I myself have fallen for countless ads and sales
pitches, but to use the media as a scapegoat for drug addiction, rape, and even murder is
unfair and quite ridiculous. One might be influenced to buy a cologne, or a grill, but to be
influenced to kill someone because of a violent show or song is non-sense. Violence is in our
genealogy right along with our other primitive instincts we are now trying overcome with our
logic and higher thinking. People killed, sexually assaulted, enslaved, tortured, and even
cannibalized one another long before mass media was conceived, and might I add that the
violence then was...
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