According to Gerard
Jones, Violent media can actually have positive effects on young people. I totally
disagree with his statement because the media has a strong impact on our
society and in specially now days with the uproar of technology, whatever
happens reaches the people more quickly in a matter of seconds. And because of
the way certain stories are covered by the media it can cause an unnecessary
up-rise that could have been avoided if certain words were not used or if
certain images were avoided or displayed more carefully.
While covering a story,
all the media really cares about is how they can own the story and make it big
so their audiences can grow. They don’t necessarily think about who actually
maybe watching or a better way to cover the story without making anybody feel
something that could eventually lead to a violent outcome. Sometimes as a
family when we watch the news, my little brother asks certain questions that
are very disturbing concerning racial issues and police brutality. As a kid, he
sees the world as black and white, he does not think trough certain issues nor
does he see them as an issue. If we do not explain to help the actually reality
of things, he may grow up looking at certain groups of people in a violent way
or thinking that all police officer kill black men and women.
I do not think the
media cover their stories fairly. There’s no media that is not biased. In the
Charlottesville, VA, a couple of weeks ago there was two groups of people of
opposite views that were marching but somehow things got heated between the two
opposite groups and led to a brutal outrage. However, because of how the story
was reported, it can easily trigger a violent response from anyone, because
violent media triggers a violent response.
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