Young children watch 8,000 murdersand 100,000acts of violencebefore leaving elementary school. - Is violence in America influenced by some television?
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Maggie McDonald Dr. Tom Proietti COMM 105 - 01 April 23, 2001 FINAL PROJECT Question #1: Young children watch 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence before leaving elementary school. - http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5676/. Is violence in America influenced by some television? Before this course, I would have been likely to have said yes. Now I think that I have to rethink all of what I thought before. One the one hand, a lot of statistics show that there is a lot of violence on television, but at the same time, if some of that is not shown, then that would be censorship (now I know that I am against that!) Does the media really glamorize violence and cause society to be more violent? According to Michael Massing from the book Violence in the Media through movies such as "Pulp Fiction" and "L.A. Confidential" violence has been made the way to solve problems quickly and easily. A...


