Violence: Blame it on the Media Recently, violence in the media has received a lot of scrutiny. Many individuals have grown concerned with increasingly explicit television shows. Just last week two brothers murdered their mother and cut off her hands and head. Their justifications for committing such an act, they saw it on "The Sopranos" (Martelle, 2002). According to an article that appeared in The Irish Times, "Watching violent acts on screen, night in and night …showed first 75 words of 516 total…

…showed last 75 words of 516 total…contradict this assertion's difficult because tests cannot be conducted until after an act has been committed. Even still, it's a stretch to claim your view of the world can be changed by habitually watching violent acts. The author sums it up best when he says, "no criminal has ever had his sentence reduced because he was under the influence of TV ("Shock Horror," 2003)". Until this happens, it's pretty antagonistic to blame violent crimes on television.