We The Media! and....The Glorification of Violence

We The Media was a really interesting read, there were so many different ideas about the media, and thoughts from hundreds of different authors, journalists, hobby writers and more. I think having all these different people corralate their ideas in to a piece of writing is great because there are so many different aspects and possible solutions for different media realted issues that arise.

One part I thought was really interesting, was the part on Violence Glorification. An author named Jon Carroll wrote a part of this section with his part entitled The Fear Years. Jon talks about how the television is the number one source of news for people even over newspapers. Through television, it is easiest to understand violence and the true scariness that people CAN die. Carroll talks about how viewers strive for blood and guts on television but really it is not that they actually like this content but rather that they are scared all the time and therefore do not see the reality of things.

At the end of a few of the sections in this book, there are true or false or other versions of this, and in this section a scary but true section describes some facts.
One fact mentioned that even children shows contain close to 26 violent acts or things within each our of it. THIS IS SCARY! When I was a kid I know I believed pretty much everything that I watched, and from the Flinstones to Leave it to Beaver, I know now that there really are violent acts in pretty much everything we watch. The problem with the media however is that it has pursuaded us enough to not even think about it as we watch it but rather let it soak in to our brains invisibly effecting us later.

There were a lot of ideas in We The Media, and I truly will use this as one of the once in a lifetime books I have read that I know I will use in the future.