The Media famously stereotypes rock culture by creating unfounded links with suicides, massacres and drug abuse

... The Media famously stereotypes rock culture by creating unfounded links with suicides, massacres and drug abuse Since the 1960's the rise in rock culture has become a strong influence over its audience, especially the younger generation. Rock culture today has many positive points about itself, but recently the media have broadcast more of the negative. This is proven in many circumstances where the media have linked rock culture with suicides, massacres and drug abuse. The media have taken the "negatives" of rock music such as, poor role models and linked them to certain events, where people have committed suicide and caused mass panic. An example of this would be the Columbine school shootings in 1999 and the Virginia Tech Massacre, which I will go into some detail later on. This has made the general public to easily associate these events with rock culture and even form anti-rock societies, who say that rock

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