Summary to Media Violence

Who's Fault Is It?

       This article is written in Marilyn Manson's point of view. He's upset about the media always finding anyone that fits the category to blame for certain crimes that happened instead of thinking that the issue could have occurred from something else. The media constantly televise crimes, plaster criminals on magazines, and on newspaper front pages. Why couldn't their action of doing that be the reason why criminals are born. By making it big news and seem important, they embed it into people's head like it's the "in" thing to do. Everyone has a part in and this makes everyone in a way guilty. The media gives it to us to view, and then we feed into it. The addressing of this problem is way overdue, and Marilyn Manson expresses thoroughly in this article how he agrees.

Video Game Violence

        This article is all about how some studies show a connection between violent video games and the actions of the people who play them. Gentile and Anderson go in depth about the studies on how violent video games are a possible reason for an increase in the player's anger and violence that happen in our world today. I honestly feel that this could be a possible reason but ultimately I feel like the blame is on the people who actually play the game. It's a person on decision to do crime, unexpected crimes happened before video games so let's not put the blame all on that. There are age ratings on games and parents should regulate the games their kids play. If the parents do play a part in helping to prevent their kids from playing these kinds of games then they are to blame. The studies have compared and found a positive relation between the two, but I don't think it's all to blame. Other things people go through in live could be the cause. Money problems, divorces, mental illnesses can all be other contributors to a child's anger. Let's not blame it on our video games people.

Tarantino Movie Violence

        This article is written by Andrew O'Hehir. He writes about Tarantino and Weinstein. Weinstein doesn't like being apart of the production of violent movie, but Tarantino's love is the creative violence he puts in his movies. My question is to Weinstein is, if you don't like the movies then, what is the point of making them knowing people want to watch it. You're the one that put it out there for the media to take notice and basically sell it to the us. Action films are a popular genre that people like and most of these movies have action, which people are referring to as violence. If it's popular and you put it out there, we're going to watch it. Weinstein continues to complain that this world will never understand the media in violence if we can't agree on what violence is. A good majority of the movies include gun violence and fights and he talks about how those are the main problems. If that doesn't seem violent to us, then he wants to know what violence is. O'Hehir in a way basically agrees with him and thinks it's about time that someone said something. I agree that the problem needs to be addressed by I don't agree that it's all on the films people produce.