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Violence In The Media - Essays

Violence In The Media

Did you hear about the recent Jonesboro shootings in America where an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old shot down and killed four school mates and a teacher? The outrage has been put down to many things including exposure to and computer games. Television authorities will tell you that TV doesn’t breed murderers, and to some extent it is true, but the fantasy violence on TV and computer games is enough to tip a blood-drenched fantasy or perhaps a gruesome dream of revenge into an irreversible act of reality.
The debate over the effects of and computer games has been going on for quite some time, but it was only in 1997 that it reached significant status just after the killing of an ...

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friends, or with real nature."
Figures show that one in four British children has their own VCR and uses it to record s-rated films late at night. X-rated films are not the problem. The problem is that the films are x-rated for a reason and this reason is that they are not designed for children’s ever believing eyes. Figures also show that they are very damaging, not least because of the desensitising more sex and violence has on children’s minds.
The rampage in 1987 by a sacked mail man put the term ‘going postal’ into the American vocabulary, meaning: a murderous rage. Since then a computer game has been made, although it is banned in Australia demo’s are available on the internet. The game POSTAL, involves a series of massacres, including a school ground shooting. The player has to try and stalk as many school kids as possible and then shoot them. Then they have the chance to either listen to their plees for mercy of ignore them and finish them ...

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