Jan 1, 2010

Is Media Violence a Problem? | Media Violence Makes People More Violent

Gregg Easterbrook is a senior editor of the New Republic, a monthly magazine of politics, foreign policy, and culture.

Summary: Many research studies have found a link between viewing media violence and engaging in real-life violence. For children, there is no question that movie and television violence has a serious effect on children’s propensity to behave violently later in life. Until age nineteen, children and teens exposed to media violence are more likely to view violence as a normal behavior and to become criminals...