Mass media controls youth and the actions that they take.

In our talk we are going to look at the mass media and it's effect on society and if the media influences society's attitude towards violent behavior. In order to fully understand this question we must first understand what violence is and what mass media is. Violence is the use of one's powers to inflict mental or physical injury upon another; examples of this would be rape or murder. And mass media can be defined …

…e time. Singers/rappers/performers/writers write based on their lives and what has gone on in it. A rapper raps about shootings, poverty and robberies, why? Because that's what the majority of them lived through. Eminem sings about things that get on his nerves. Why? Because he lives with those emotions and feelings. People who use these artists as excuses to be violent are wrong. TV and music do not commit crimes, people do.