English IA-media and violence. Dear James, I have got the last letter you sent me on the topic of violence and I do not quite agree with your opinion saying that the media does not influence the peoples violent acts.

English A2 Media and Culture Written Task

Letter

Violence and media

Radio and television

Dear James,

I have got the last letter you sent me on the topic of violence and I do not quite agree with your opinion saying that the media does not influence the people’s violent acts. It is true that most violent behavior is generated from people’s insanity, but still I do not believe that violence itself is innate. In my opinion, I believe that all people are innately good and the reason why people turn to violence is nurtured. People are not animals, there must be a reason behind all violence and the cause I most influential is the television. According to the news I have been watching recently, most of the violence issues are either a direct imitation of what was shown on the television previously or somehow related to things that were shown on the television. The reason why I hold this point of view is because I have seen the news providing information on violence behavior as a imitation to what the people saw on the television.

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Not long ago, a group of children in Hunan province of China had been arrested for the murder of their classmate. When the children were investigated, the answers of killing their classmate was shocking. The policeman asked them why did they kill their classmate, they were all stunned by the fact that their classmate was dead, one of the child suddenly burst out shouting: ‘wouldn’t the child grow his cut-off head back?’ The policeman was surprised by the reaction of the child and went on asking why was the child surprised by the death of his fellow classmate. The child confessed that the gang of students who committed the crime was watching Zombie movies at his home and they saw the scene of the Zombie growing back its cut-off head, so they decided to try it on their classmate. When I saw this news, I was completely shocked by the fact that the television is now that influential among children. This concerns me because most of the development of how people perceives the world is done when the person is still young. So, this is a definite evidence of the media causing violence in our society.

There was another one case I saw just a couple days back. There was this man, he hits his wife just because his wife was watching Korean soap drama which focuses on extramarital affairs. The man was quite afraid that his wife will imitate what she saw on the television and so he smashed the television, and started to hit his wife every night. From this event we can see that the television does not only provide a source of violent acts, but it also could evoke fear, and fear will then be expressed in ways such as violence.

According to the information I have got recently, I can conclude that most of the violence in our society is somehow related to the television, thus most valence are related to media. If the media is used unwisely, it could be used as a source to provide methods of violent and this might cause the society to become more violent and unstable. Another thing is that the television can create unnecessary fear in the society, this is because most of the ‘problems’ the television shows are not actually happening around us. But, the fear will still cause people to react in certain ways, such as violence. Therefore, most of the violence in the society are somehow linked to the television.

I am not sure if I made my points clear, if you have any problems or arguments to make, please send me a letter anytime and we can further discuss this topic.

Sincerely your,

David