Violence: Blame It on the Media

Recently, violence in the media has received a lot of scrutiny. Many individuals have grown concerned with increasingly explicit television shows. Just last week two brothers murdered their mother and cut off her hands and head. Their justifications for committing such an act, they saw it on "The Sopranos" (Martelle, 2002). According to an article that appeared in The Irish Times, "Watching violent acts on screen, night in and night out, twists our view of the world". This assertion's absolutely ridiculous. Many of these violent acts appear on the night…