Article Summary

I chose this particular article because its main point kind of follows the way that I view media violence.  This article talks about how parents generations assume that new video games and movies are breeding their kids into stone cold killers when in reality the only big issue is that their kids are being bred into stone cold button pushers who go outside. The author talks about how violence in the media might have some causes that lead to real aggression and real violence, but the probability of a child becoming aggressive because of something he saw on a TV is so low that you might as well be more worried about his lack of activity. The article also mentions how people overestimate how bad a certain movie or video game may be just because of the situation that a person is in. When in reality that is the point of movies and video games, for people to be in extraordinary situations that people in real life don’t want to experience. I think that this article fits this paper perfectly because all of the authors in the different articles have different views and points. One author calls for reform in the media and suggests that media violence is ruining Americas youth, another author uses statistics to prove facts about media violence from both use while my author suggests that media violence has little to no effect on real aggression. I think that creating dialogue will be easy to do with every author having different points.