Violence in Media

Article 1
This first article in particular dealt with violence in relation to video games. It started out with giving the history of the first outbreak out violent video games and how the obscene images that began to develop which each new video game. The article also mentioned how violence in video games can cause and increase aggression, especially in the lives of small children. Video game distributors do their job by putting ratings on the games, but I believe that it is the parents' job to better monitor what their child is viewing. However, some parents for whatever reason may still be comfortable with allowing their children to look at such vulgar images for entertainment.
This article was written like a research paper and not so much like a regular news article because of the depth of information given.

Article 2
This article too talked about violence in media but more so violence in relation to movies. Many of us enjoy watching movies with fighting scenes and vulgar scenes no matter how brutal they may be. This article particularly focuses on one producer, Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein is known for his violent films that many people find entertaining. The author states that Weinstein never dos something that he does not believe in; this is his profession that he has been doing for a long time so he obviously knows what he is doing. Weinstein is only giving the public what they want because they feed on these types of movies. Whether these violent movies were ceased or never made there would still be violence in the world because are going to do what they want regardless of the things put on the big screen.

Article 3
This last article was by music artist Marilyn Manson. Although he is very controversial and I don't listen to his music, I liked many of the things that he had to say in this article. To summarize what he said , America is full of hypocrites and opportunists. The media likes to publicize certain violent situations/images and then but other on the back burner without valid justification. Who is to decide what is appropriate and what isn't? Also, he's basically saying that violence is increasing so much in today's society that it is becoming the norm and we adapting to it little by little whether we truly want it or not.


Reaction: The author that I found to be most convincing was Marilyn Manson because he mentioned  lot of points that I agree with. He also said some things that questioned Christianity which is my belief , and did not agree with. After reading all the different articles my belief remains the same. Violence is going to exist not matter how much peace we try to bring because everyone thinks differently and are going to do what they want.