Violence in the media summaries

Violent video games: This first article is obviously about the effects of playing violent games and being a violent child. The article starts out by pointing out that there are parents who are so concerned about keeping their children away from violence in the real world have no problem letting their children watch or play violent games. Violent video games have a long history starting with Death Race, released in 1976. It caused so much chaos that some communities banned it. People starting thinking that games should have less blood and violence, but saw that the games sold better if these things were included. Two senators got a hearing together to see if R rated movies were actually being rated correctly which caused a stir in the video game industry. The article goes on to explain some experimental studies about the short term studies of playing violent video games. They also did correlation studies about the long term effects of these video games. All coming to the conclusion that there was a correlation between playing these games and having violent tendencies.

Tarantino & Weinstein: This article is all about Andrew's view of such movie producers like Tarantino and Weinstein. He is completely biased in saying that he does not believe that either one of these people have created any such violence to happen in the media, in fact he says that these types of movies were bound to come around regardless of who was going to make them. He also states that violence in the media has not increased which he believes means that there is no correlation of violent movies to violent in the real world. Weinstein reflects that no one really understands the correlation between violence media and violence in real life. It comes down to the point that people just don't know if there is a true correlation. Andrew continues on by noting that these movie producers wouldn't continue to make these movies if the population didn't have such reactions to the movies.

Whose fault is it?: This article is very interesting and takes religious take to violence which I have never looked at before. It states that before there was media, people were still ready to kill. Manson goes on to seem upset, which he has every right too, when he is put at blame for killings because the children were "dressed" like him when they weren't even remotely similar to him. He says that America loves to have an icon to hang their guilt on which is totally true. Anyone who seems strikingly different becomes a scapegoat. I think Manson sees the bigger picture in our world than just violence. Such things like solving depression, car crashes and AIDS.