Monday, January 12, 2009

Fatal Friendship

http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/shooting/0822fata1.shtml

This talks about how Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, best friends, became involved in one of the worst school shootings in history. And it all started from listenin to violent music and other media.

Can A Video Game Lead To Murder?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/60minutes/main678261.shtml

In This article a 18-year old, Devin Moore, killed two cops and a 911 dispatcher. It was said that he played grand theft auto all day and night. Auttorney Jack Thompson said "What we're saying is that Devin Moore was, in effect, trained to do what he did. He was given a murder simulator".

I think that this is a perfect example of what media violence can do to people who are exposed to it.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Violent Media is Good for Kids

In This article Gerald Jones talk how some types of media violence is good for kids.

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2000/06/violent_media.html

Monday, January 5, 2009

Violent media 'creates more violent children'

This talks about how when children go on websites and play games they find out about some sort of seriously violent behavior, such as shooting, stabbing, robbery, assault or sexual assault in the past year. When they are on violent websites and video games.

http://www.greatdad.com/tertiary/274/3321/violent-media-creates-more-violent-children.html

Violent Media Images Spark Aggressive Behavior

This article describes how violent media brings children the "bad influences" that parents feared in the household. Also how some of their bad friends promote it by going and staying out in the streets.

http://www.miller-mccune.com/article/violent-media-images-spark-aggressive-behavior