The Effect of TV News Crime and Violence

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The Effect of TV News Crime and Violence

Television news, due primarily to its obsession with crime and

violence, definitely has a negative impact upon our society. TV news

is basically an oxymoron; giving us the skin of the truth stuffed with

a lie. A news program should be focused on the facts, with perhaps

some objective analysis. However, for business purposes, TV news

broadcasts use dramatic, usually violent stories and images to capture

and maintain an audience, under the pretense of keeping it informed.

What we see and hear on the news affects us both consciously and

subconsciously, and sends us about our lives unnecessarily fearing the

remote dangers that we see excessively portrayed on the evening news.

This fact is especially true for our children, who are defenseless

against this onslaught of malevolence being brought into our very

living rooms in the guise of informative reporting. ,

the story of Jessica Dubroff. Jessica was to become the youngest

person to fly across the continent. At the start of her voyage, there

was only a smattering of news reports granting her a few seconds of

recognition. However, after her plane crashed, and she, her father and

trainer were killed, Jessica was front-page news. JonBenet Ramsey is

another example; a beautiful little girl with so much going for her,

yet not deemed worthy of any media attention until her tragic murder

made her a household name. To see the latest horror / thriller,

there's no need to go to your local theater; it's on television at 10

PM. Yet the news isn't completely at fault; the people (like myself)

who complain that these stories are plethoric are the very peo...

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... But is this really news, and is it a

responsible thing for the networks to be doing, or is it a blatant

abuse of power? The journalistic "powers that be" could make better

use of their resources by at least reporting an imminent threat, to

which perhaps the viewers could react (and possibly help deter),

rather than to simply show us the devastation that has already

occurred, solely for its "entertainment" value. It is a spiritual law

that whatever is focused upon increases; we "sow what we reap." Hence,

violence begets violence; fear begets fear; and the dismal world

depicted on the evening news becomes a self-fulfilling one. Things are

getting worse on TV and all of us, especially our children, are paying

a hefty price. If only we could change the old cliché to, "no news is

bad news," it might indeed come to be so. ,

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