Media's Puppets

American’s have become puppets of the media, the media influences the way they act and what they become. Media has been around for years, but recently started to lose its value. For years children have been looking up to media to make their identity. Young citizens will do anything and everything to be a size four model, just so she or he could fit in with society’s meaning of beautiful. Not only would kids imitate what the media shows them but they will go to extreme measures to become those displayed on our televisions.
Media also becomes a huge distraction to Americans. They become more concerned about what’s new in the media industry than what is important in their life. Citizens of America are missing important details in life because …show more content…
Not seeing what logic is, and going off of personal feeling or experiences. The Media makes people emotionally unstable when they come in contact with their video games and their music video gangsters. Watching or listing to these videos could potentially lead a person to changing their character or living with long term consequences. This is a very important topic to discuss because youth crimes are on a constant rise and if we had an understanding of why we can go to the source and fix the problem. Once we try to get a control on what is being controlled in the music industry youth crime will decrease. Or if we can even get the music industry to speak about more positive things, that can also decrease youth crimes. So many of our youth wouldn’t be in jail houses, they will be in classrooms. Americans, specifically boys are anxious to get home to hop on their game devices such as; X-Box, PlayStation, and the Wii. Most of the games they have, deal with violence and criminal action. The media has promoted these type as the best games to buy. They may be the most popular games to buy but they also are the most popular reason why kids become emotionally unstable. In a journal titled. “Do Violent Video Games Contribute to Youth Violence” by the ProCon organization discuses some recent statistics on youth crime and where it stimulates from. They inform us that, “Children who see a lot of violence …show more content…
In another journal titled, “Health Effects of Media on Children and Adolescents” by Victor C. Strasburger, Amy B. Jordan and Ed Donnerstein uses an school shooting for an example how violent video games has raised the recent generation as criminals. A student who constantly plays shooting games, end up shooting people at his school. The authors state, “It was discovered that the shooter had never fired a real gun in his life before that day, yet his marksmanship was both accurate and lethal.” The video game became practice for the boy, hours and hours of trying to perfectly aim his targets on the game has taught him how to make a clean kill. The criminal life is also expressed in music