Media's Influence on Society
April 30, 8:17 in the morning. Quiet. Without warning, the police scanner wails. "All units, shots fired on Third Avenue."The listening police officer sits up in his seat. "A little early for a shoot out," he mumbles, "especially in this city."The radio re-awakens after a short rest. "All units precede to Central Middle School. Proceed with caution."The police officer doesn't quite know what to think. "What kind of a low-life would shoot up a school?" He proceeds to the crime scene, siren howling. He hops out of his car and joins a few other officers at the school's entrance. Another shot is fired. Weapons drawn, they slowly make their way inside. About ten feet from the door, a body lies motionless, a gunshot in the back. Apparently he was trying to escape. They roll the body over, hoping to find some signs of life. They find only an eleven-year-old, dead, the look of fear and surprise frozen on his face for all eternity. Such is the scene deeper inside the school. Bodies are randomly strewn about like leaves deposited by the wind on a fall afternoon. Seven bodies total. Creeping further in, the police officers finally find life, locked behind door after door in classrooms.
It may be hard to believe, but the very TV in your living room is one of the many influences that built and is building our society as we speak. " The blue-gray cathode glow illuminates the mind, shacking the imagination and leaving it wondering the possibilities. " In response to hearing this at a recent committee summit, Laurence Steinberg, distinguished professor of psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, responded by saying "To my knowledge, there is good evidence that watching television and film increases aggression in children. Family breakdown, peer influences, the availability of weapons, and nume!rous other factors contribute to these problems. If a filmmaker can say that they are an artist, and many of them love to refer to themselves as "artist's", then, like a painter, or sculptor, or writer, their work does effect people's sense of what love or hate means, and how, as people, we go about expressing them. The committee said, "prolonged viewing of media violence can lead to emotional desensitization toward violence in real life" (Associated Press 1). ) to increased aggression in children (Associated Press 1). " This raises a new question: does media influence society? If so, is it for the better or for the worse?Many people believe that the common television is a major building block of our present society. They influence people's feelings about every human act and emotion.
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