Early Age Violence, and Where it Comes From
In Dudley Erskine Devlin's “Children and Violence in America,” he proposed the idea that violence in children and teenagers today isn't caused by television programs and movies, but rather the liberal media such as newspapers and nightly news shows. He states that the liberal media is “trying to scare the daylights out of the public in order to sell newspapers and raise their Nielsen Ratings.” While Devlin brings up a good point, one could argue that the exact opposite is true; that children are more violent today because they see television shows and movies with an immense amount of concentrated violence, and think they accurately depict how society should behave.
“Teenagers see over 200,000 violent acts on television before they're eighteen,” states Devlin. He is not only talking about the programs we watch, but also the news stories. Devlin believes that the numbers are high mainly because the news exaggerates their......
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