In all of the passages we have read in class it seems as if the writer wants to blame the media for the actions of the young, mainly the most destructive ones. However, is the media truly the bad guy in all the situations given in the stories? In the texts we read the writers blame television and movies for the ill behavior of kids, but we fail to realize the common link between them: The parents. To understand a situation completely you must first seek out the root of the problem, what causes the chain of events that leads to the final act. Hence, the question in our minds today is: “What causes our youth today to act irresponsibly and vandalistic?” The answer to that question is apparent, but the parents who face it, chose to ignore it because it would affirm their own guilt, for they, the parents, are the ones to blame.
Whenever someone is charged with any kind of accusation, their first reaction is
Therefore, who are to blame? The media, for their reckless discharge of violence and sexuality? Or perhaps the parents for their negligence in their own need to make money? Perhaps we are to blame, each and everyone in this capitalistic society in which money is everything. If it were not for our modern standards where to be successful you must be rich, then maybe the media would not have to go to extremes trying to please the public; and maybe the parents would get to stay home more often and spend time with their kids. Then maybe, there would not be any more massacres or innocents dying at the hands of teenagers.
to say they are innocent, and more often than not, they accuse someone else for their crime. What is happening to America today is the same thing, our youth is being corrupted, juvenile delinquency is increasing with every generation, and who is to blame, well the parents point their fingers at t
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