Graphic violence Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis of Misconceptions of Media Violence.

Graphic violence Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis of Misconceptions of Media Violence.
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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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