If somebody is already very aggressive (owing to other factors), then all right, the extra aggression because of watching violent TV may very well push them over the road into committing a violent crime.
A gunman, unhappy on his mother's health condition, injured a physician then killed his mom and himself. The shootings happened at a famous hospital.
As soon as I heard that the shooter targeted the doctor because of his mother's health condition, I immediately thought of the gruesome season finale of Grey's Anatomy. In those two episodes, titled "Sanctuary" and "Death and All His Friends", a man goes on a shooting rampage at the hospital, looking for (and eventually shooting) the doctor who he felt killed his wife. The episodes had several shootings, including some at close-range.
While audience demographics data would mostly likely tell us that the shooter probably wasn't a regular viewer of Grey's Anatomy, the similarities made me wonder once again about the impact of television violence on committing violent acts. You can't avoid violent programs just by changing channels - even the commercials have violence. One commercial in particular aired during one of the UF Gator football games. It was a commercial for a TV movie, and it consisted of a shadowy figure standing in a doorway and a little girl sitting up and saying in a shaky, terrified voice, "Daddy?" Mind you, there were children watching the football game during this time, and the commercial came on so quickly no one had time to jump up and turn it off.
Viewing of television violence has been correlated with an increase in violent behavior and aggression in young viewers. In addition, watching violence in the media news programs increases aggression and even imitative (or "copycat") suicide in young viewers(Huessman & Taylor 2006). Huessman and Taylor went so far as to state that television violence is a threat to public health.
Another study found that viewing media violence actually can alter brain functioning, as assessed with fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging). And it doesn't seem to matter whether someone is naturally predisposed to being violent - it changed brain function regardless of whether someone had an aggressive personality or not.
Ought to a TV show somebody being shot point-blank in the head? Should they show graphic violence in commercials? And why do not people get as upset about TV violence as they do while there is nudity or sex in the media? It is time we took a tough look at how the violence that we view in the media, on purpose and inadvertently, can influence the way we view the world and our tendency towards violence.
There are actually no tough numbers on rates of bullying or rates of impoliteness or rudeness. But anecdotally, it does seem that bullying has increased greatly and that society has become much less trusting and civil. In my opinion, I think that violent TV and social violence on TV have changed society. American society is meaner, less caring, and crueler thanks in large part to violent TV.
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