I find it ironic how the same folks who think that violent video games and movies don’t affect the minds of the masses decry how the leftist media is turning the masses into mindless sheeple.
If the games and movies don’t affect folks, then the news doesn’t either!
If TV etc. didn’t sway the thinking of folks, the broadcasters wouldn’t have commercials! And nobody would pay millions for a 20 second add on the super bowl. Manufacturers spend millions trying to figure out how to sway folks to their products through ads of various kinds.
Sure, kids are more susceptible to programming than most adults, especially when subjected to years of it while their little minds and opinions are being formed, but being bombarded by violence, sex and various forms of propaganda is sure to twist anyone’s view of reality.
I am not saying that if your average person plays a violent video game or watches a movie they are going to become a murderer, I am just saying that denying any affect whatsoever is ignorant.
Johnny C
If the games and movies don’t affect folks, then the news doesn’t either!
If TV etc. didn’t sway the thinking of folks, the broadcasters wouldn’t have commercials! And nobody would pay millions for a 20 second add on the super bowl. Manufacturers spend millions trying to figure out how to sway folks to their products through ads of various kinds.
Sure, kids are more susceptible to programming than most adults, especially when subjected to years of it while their little minds and opinions are being formed, but being bombarded by violence, sex and various forms of propaganda is sure to twist anyone’s view of reality.
I am not saying that if your average person plays a violent video game or watches a movie they are going to become a murderer, I am just saying that denying any affect whatsoever is ignorant.
Johnny C