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Currently in society 60% of the television programs aired contain violence, 40% of ‘wicked’ characters go unpunished, 68% of news stories associate violence with youth, approximately three quarters of scenarios carried out by ‘evil’ characters present no remorse, criticism, or penalties and less than half of the programs aired on television actually link violence with pain. As you can automatically presume, media violence is sweeping the nation by storm. This high of concentration of violence displayed by the mass media however, makes it conventional to behave in a violent manner and thus increases aggression by exuding distorted perceptions of a certain race and age; encouraging the public to act violently and lastly by desensitizing the contemporary society to violent crimes that occur across the globe.

Nowadays the media tends to overemphasize and/or exaggerate events in order to attain viewers and ratings. However, by exuding distorted perceptions of the truth,......

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