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Violence In The News

 

            The news media shows too much violence on television. Remember the Columbine incident? If the news media had not publicized it like they did, many schools across America would not have gotten any of the bomb threats that ensued after Columbine. Parents and teachers tell children to watch the news because it is less violent than the cartoons and music videos out there. When the Columbine crises went down, the news was all over it. I was watching the Superman Batman hour when it was interrupted by a special report. The kids watching at that particular moment would have seen a young student climbing out of the library window covered in his blood. And the gunshots that soon followed made by the S.W.A.T. team and the two armed boys inside the school. If this is less violent than a cartoon duck getting smashed by an anvil I am in the wrong country. The major news media stations covered the chaos live then they reaired it threw out the next two months. Within the next few weeks there where more than twenty-five arrest where made around the country on kids copying the Harris and Cleabold escapade, some just saying that they are going to blow-up their schools. The news media is seemingly driven by violence and people probably don't want their kid to grow up to participate in violent activities. ( 242 words ).
            


Essays Related to Violence In The News

1. United Nations Security Council Calls Meeting Over Syrian Violence

... With barely any progress for either the protestors or the government, demonstrators vowed to temporarily forego their demonstrations in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Syrian government quickly took advantage of the demonstrators' silence by ordering a military assault on the city of Hama, killing almost 100 Syrians over the span of a weekend. In light of the unprovoked violence, the United Nations Security Council met to ... that al-Assad "must be aware that under international humanitarian law, this is accountable" (ABC News). With more killings occurring everyday and ...

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2. United Nations Security Council Calls Meeting Over Syrian Violence

... With barely any progress for either the protestors or the government, demonstrators vowed to temporarily forego their demonstrations in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Syrian government quickly took advantage of the demonstrators' silence by ordering a military assault on the city of Hama, killing almost 100 Syrians over the span of a weekend. In light of the unprovoked violence, the United Nations Security Council met to ... that al-Assad "must be aware that under international humanitarian law, this is accountable" (ABC News). With more killings occurring everyday and ...

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

3. Boyfriend, Nick MGuffin, Suspected in Leah Freeman's Murder

... chose not to wait for her ride and instead decided to walk home but never made it (CBS News). On August 3, 2000, her body was found in a wooded area about eight miles from her hometown of Coquille. The autopsy revealed that she had died from "homicidal violence." The only piece of evidence found was a single tennis shoe found on a sidewalk (Lohr). Without enough evidence ... , the case grew cold. Because Freeman was supposed to meet up with McGuffin that night, police questioned him and received ... from his car, although his father protested that he had removed the liner because of a ...

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4. Taliban Attacks Luxury Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan

... said police general, Mohammed Zahir, head of the Criminal Investigation Department. He later said during a local television airing that the Interior Minister, Bismullah Khan, had joined the security forces at the scene (Rubin). NATO tracked the violence but did not intervene until their assistance was requested. "Two ISAF helicopters circled the roof of the hotel and then identified three individuals believed to ... be insurgents on the roof and the helicopters engaged the individuals with small arms," said Major Time ... assured Interior Minister Bismullah Khan (CNN). The casualties w...

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5. Journalists Participating in Gaza Flotilla Threatened by Israel

... urged them to use "established and efficient" measures to get aid to Gaza (Chick). The Foreign Press Association fought back in favor of the activists, saying journalists have a right to cover a legitimate news event and should not be threatened or intimidated for doing their jobs. The association said the threats send "a chilling message to the international media and raises serious questions about Israel's commitment to freedom of ... just my opinion. This flotilla is in defiance of the call by the secretary general of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, that such flotillas should be discouraged, an...

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6. The Effect of Town Hall Meetings on President Obama's Plan for Health Care Reform

... town on a rail due to their stance on healthcare reform. While happenings in Podunk Nowhere would not have mattered 100 years ago, in today's 24 hour global news cycle, Podunk nowhere finds itself squarely positioned in the center of the "places that are important map." The valid arguments on both sides of the debate are irrelevant in the midst of screaming matches where paid professionals are inciting crowds to agree ... hair out trying to keep all of the extremist arguments on point, that being that 1 in 4 Americans who have healthcare, have inadequate coverage in the case of a catast...

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7. Violence In Society

... thing is the news which plays a major role in most of the violence we see. Every night around five o-clock thousands tune in to their local news channel. Most of what they see is the horrible events happening all over the world, usually involving a lot of violence. But all that we see is true and people want to be informed. So the news says and shows it like it is. Violence in the news is like ... an action packed sequence from a movie, it keeps the viewers interested. Without it the news would be boring ... and no one would tune in. Who would want to watch a guy in front of the camera...

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8. Don't Blame the Media

Unlike most people think the media does not cause violence but instead it provides entertainment for all. It easily entertains people with the news or games that people play. Some say that media will cause violence Like Governor Chris Christie, who says "You cannot tell me that a kid sitting in a basement for hours playing Call of Duty and killing people over and over again does not ... desensitize that child to the real-life effects of violence." It has gotten to the point where some ... what their children play, do, or watch. And a business also has the right to restrict someone buying an ...

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9. Media - Local and National News

... has been giving bad effect. It is also very important that we set in our minds that we cannot completely erase crime and violence in the news; it is because this issue helps us be more aware of the environment we are all living in. As stated in Steven D. Stark's article titled, "Local News: The Biggest Scandal on TV," he describes how we ignore and forget more important ... issues happening around us. Stark specifies, "Moreover, what gets ignored gets forgotten. "[C]overage of the environment, education, the economy, science, the arts ... ...

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