BMC COOLBEANS
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Exactly what the title says. Feel free to explain your answer.
I really can't answer because I don't...and never have...watched much TV.
But, I have to ask for a bit of clarification: Are you asking this as a general question? Or are you primarily focused on children?
In general
Yes TV and movies promote violence. Two kids were just busted in Oregon for trying to carjack a lady with a gun. Here is what they said during the commission of this crime.
'They told me they were going to blow my brains out if I didn't give them something,'
The youngest of the two allegedly nudged to the other, 'show her your piece,' prompting the oldest to pull up his shirt where the weapon was revealed.
: "You don't ever ask somebody if it's real. That's how you get yourself shot,"'
Now just where in HELL are kids this age getting these lines if not from TV?
Oregon boys ages 7, 11 accused in attempted carjacking of 22-year-old woman
We have been besieged with crime long before TV entered the scene...
IMO, the problem is uncaring parents who park their offspring in front of the TV while they pursue their interests (gambling, drinking, fighting depression, greed)..
Yes, I think it does.... but maybe actually in the opposite way you may think. I've heard that T.V. may decrease violent behavior because it gives us a chance to exercise our violent behavior through our imagination instead of bottling it up and relieving our aggression by some other means.
But, that was just one study/article I read.
it could have been about video games... meh pretty similar.
We have been besieged with crime long before TV entered the scene...
IMO, the problem is uncaring parents who park their offspring in front of the TV while they pursue their interests (gambling, drinking, fighting depression, greed)..
These kids got these lines they said to their intended victim somewhere, if not TV, WHERE???
Exactly what the title says. Feel free to explain your answer.
Exactly what the title says. Feel free to explain your answer.