One of the most troubling results of so much media immersion is the apparent slip in parenting. More and more, children are being taught their value systems and being raised by television. Not only is this troubling because of the disintegration of the family unit and the questionable content children can find today, but also, television is giving parents and authority figures a scapegoat. When things go wrong, blame everyone else. This is becoming a widespread motto. The most blatant example of this theory was in the aftermath of the Columbine tragedy. The parents, the school, the community, even our government, none of them shouldered the blame. They did

However, in an interview with Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine, when asked what he’d say to the community and kids of Columbine, he said he wouldn’t say anything, but rather he’d listen to what they had to say, and that no one else did that. Does this sound like the voice of a man responsible for driving the youth of America to deviance and murder? To me, it sounds like someone who cares. If that’s the kind of ideology that leads kids to be a menace to society, then I’m going to make a horrible father. But I don’t think either of those things are true. Manson’s comments were some of the most rational and caring I’ve ever heard on the subject of violence in youth, and more specifically the kids at Columbine.

Media may be full of anger and violence, but just because it contains these aspects, doesn’t mean it promotes them. Even if Marilyn Manson and KMFDM did tell kids to go and kill and be angry and violent, if the parents and society around the kids raise them the right way, it won’t matter. They’re just songs. They’re just games. They’re just movies. They exist to entertain, not to raise and shape the youth of America. That’s the parents’ job.

, however, agree about whose shoulders that

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