Blog 7

Thesis: The violence shown on television is the problem in most cases. Sending a message to people through a world wide network is what causes most problems.

En.wikipedia.org/wiki/john_thompson_(sociologist)
-This source basically talks about John Thompson a sociologist's meaning of the medias development of mass communication over the years. He discusses how the media its self effects the minds of humans.

Title: Violence In The Media by LeeAnne Gelletly
Publisher: Detroit : Thomson/Gale ; Farmington Hills, MI : Lucent Books, 2004.
112p
-The Book "Violence In The Media" is self explanatory. The book talks about how the media itself promotes and market the violence seen in the world which doesnt send out good personal ratings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_violence_research
-This link brings up some research on if the violence in the media exists. Giving broad examples of the aggression people used through out time. The results were drastic, this link brings good information to my paper.

http://www.jacksonkatz.com/PDF/ChildrenMedia.pdf
www.nccev.org/violence/statistics-media.html
-Both of these websites show the statistics within the violence that the media promotes. Statistics within the television era and the violence are bein show boated and revealed to the audience 17 and under. Given a social realization to wat happend as a result people came up to find these specific statistics.

Outline:
*Introduction: more violence increases the Debate
-"In April 1999 two teenage gunman stormed into their high school in Littleton, Colorado and started shooting their classmates"
-"the media violence is not new"
-"in the aftermath, as other troubled teens committed copy cat crimes,..."
-"Before the age of eighteen, the average American teen will have witnessed 18,000 simulated murders on TV."
-"The news media are blamed for focusing about 80 to 90 percent of the time on violent stories rather than on hopeful ones."

*Body: The violence shown within the early television network didn't focus on it as much as they do now of days.
-Censors would view an monitor programs for violence and offensive language then tell the producers if the content was strong. Yet in the 1970's and 80's violence increased which gave viewers a more realistic view.
-Violence can be seen in almost every show on television causing easy access to all ages. As told by Kathleen "About 75 percent of American homes have two or more television sets" which shows that the media lowered their censorship.

Body: Warnings about the violent content is nothing but interest to people. It does nothing 2 stop who watches nor who can watch the ratings of certain channels. Giving TV ratings to protect the kids from the violence.

Body: Concerned of the aggressiveness shown the government was urged to lower the amount of violence shown on television.

Body: Violence also comes in the form of a video game. Murder Simulators is what Lt Col. Dave Grossman calls it. In first player shooter games they teach how to shoot like soldiers. A Fourteen year old boy Michael Carneal stole a hand gun from his neighbor bringing it to school and fires eight shots. An average law enforcer hits about 1 bullet out of five, Michael hits all eight shots fired at each different student. All practice from a video game.

Conclusion or Last Paragraph: There was an incident on "The Jenny Jones Show" where the discussion was about "same sex crushes" guest Scott Amedure surprised Jonathan Schmitz with news of having a crush for him. Days later Schmitz who was embarrassed about the situation shot down Amedure at his house. This violent act brang the media to realize violence is not a joke its reality in which we live.