Article Response

I truly believe that I have found the perfect article to contribute to a dialogue. As someone who is planning on eventually pursuing a degree in education I’m very interested to see how someone believes that media violence is affecting our nations youth and what better source/person to argue that than someone who is working for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In this article the author, Eugene V Beresin, argues with the statistics available to him such as: “the typical American will witness 200,000 acts of violence, including 16,000 murders before age 18.” (Beresin, The Impact of Media Violence). There is so much violence and this author does really seem to genuinely believe that it is, at least, contributing to further real life violence. He advocates for a reduction and further surveillance by parents to reduce the amount of media that kids are exposed to. I think it would be very interesting to see someone, specifically the man who wrote this article, argue the effects of violence in media vs. someone who doesn’t necessarily believe that violence is as big an issue as it could possibly be. I think very conflicting views would contribute for an excellent dialogue and the complications and disagreements would make one another’s arguments more intriguing than two people who are whole heartedly agreeing with one another.