Is the Majority of Crime in Our Society Voilent in Nature?
Autor: hjaff2 • April 6, 2017 • Essay • 308 Words (2 Pages) • 964 Views
Introduction
Crime problems are arguably misinterpreted throughout all types of media whether it’s on social websites and the news, people now days tend to believe everything they see on television, but what is seen on the screen is merely another form of entertainment, my beliefs differ, the information presented by the media tends to be significantly different and inaccurate in comparison to the official information that has happened in crime scenes itself, this occurs for reasons such as the content being inappropriate or may be confronting to certain individuals or the reason could be as simple as its too uninteresting, We only get to view what is considered “news worthy “ so what actually happens in detail will never really be known by public . The agenda setting also plays a big role as whether the crime scene gets aired live or not, the media structures the way people think and essentially helps form political realities, this theory was introduced by (McCombs and Shaw, 1972).
According to the researchers, one of the main reason that the media targeting and reporting violent crime is because the society wants to know. The reason why people wants to know about this is because it is entertaining and anything that entertains people and catches their attention then that is what the media would want to show people. The research of crime newspaper shows that only 54 percent of report violent stories while 75 percent of the crime presented on the media were mostly sexual and there wasn't any specified assault reported (Ertter and Vinson, 2002). However, alot of this violent crimes are dramatic because people viewers will be attracted to this type of
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