The Media and Violent Crime :: Media Argumentative Persuasive Argument

The Media and Violent Crime      An issue that many corporate executives trend is the possibility thataggressive people seek support for their throw soul-destroying acts.  Television violence, for instance, and the widespread public concern accompanying it have direct to calls for strict controls on the depiction of violent programs.      In their decision making, approximately producers do not earn right for theequally important minority.  Instead, they may gear their content toward themasses, who crave sexually explicit and violent action.  Fortunately, this free radicalhas the ability to disseminate violent action rationally, realizing that inreality, people who blame acts of violence have to compensate for their actionsby taking full responsibility for the harm they cause others.      not everyone can distinguish fact from fantasy.  Not nevertheless is it theirrational people who commit the cr imes in our country, but our own children whomay errantly be learning from day one that nothing hurtful will happen to them ifthey shoot their brother in the head with Daddys pistol.      Studies appearing that in one week of content analysis of prime-time output ons take down New York City channels, there were 3,421 acts and threats of violenceobserved.  Childrens fictional cheer programs had three times thefrequency of violent acts or threats recorded in adult programs.   (Gunter,p.13).  many of these acts were committed without any compensation for theaction without responsibility, therefore it must be acceptable behavior.  Similarly,aggressive adults ar seeking reinforcement for their own anti-social behaviorfrom seeing attractive television receiver characters behave in the same way.      Behavioral evidence has indicated that the anti-social tacks of violenttelevision portrayals are strongest and are most likel y to occur amongindividuals who are already aggressive.  (Palmer, p. 10).      The ethical question is, should television submit to mass appeal or takeinto consideration the affects on certain members of society, includingchildren?  The consequences of televising violence are not only harmful to someviewers but concurrently affect the television stations in the form of loss ofviewers and possibly gaining a bad reputation.  There are many sources,including viewers associations and popular journalism, which have been condemning the depiction of violence in television programs as a potentiallydangerous and anti-social act on the part of those who make and transmitprograms.  (Gunter p. 2).  Still, even though these associations have beencondemning television violence, their efforts have had little effect on thelarge money-making corporations.  Therefore, the decision, on the part of thosein charge of the programs, should be one of social resp onsibility.      In his article, Sex and Violence, Joe Saltzman states, If, as producers