The Media and Violent Crime :: Media Argumentative Persuasive Argument

The Media and Violent Crime      An issue that numerous corporate executives cut off is the possibility thataggressive people seek reinforcement for their own destructive acts.  Television violence, for instance, and the widespread public concern accompanying it have led to calls for stringent controls on the depiction of violent programs.      In their decision making, some producers do not take responsibility for theequally important minority.  Instead, they may gear their satisfy toward themasses, who crave sexually explicit and violent action.  Fortunately, this grouphas the ability to disseminate violent action rationally, realizing that inreality, people who put acts of violence have to address for their actionsby taking full responsibility for the harm they cause others.      Not everyone can distinguish fact from fantasy.  Not only is it theirrational people who commit the crimes in our country , but our own children whomay errantly be learning from day one that nothing bad will happen to them ifthey shoot their brother in the head with Daddys pistol.      Studies show that in one week of content analysis of prime-time output onseven New York City channels, there were 3,421 acts and threats of violenceobserved.  Childrens fictive entertainment 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, whence it must be acceptable behavior.  Similarly,aggressive adults are seeking reinforcement for their own anti-social behaviorfrom seeing attractive idiot box characters behave in the kindred way.      Behavioral evidence has indicated that the anti-social effects of violenttelevision portrayals are strongest and are most likely to occur amongindividuals who are al ready 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 beencondemning the depiction of violence in television programs as a potentiallydangerous and anti-social act on the part of those who appoint 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 institutionalize of the programs, should be one of social responsibility.  &nbs p   In his article, Sex and Violence, Joe Saltzman states, If, as producers