Is Christianity being Trumped by Media

Vander Lught, Dan "Should Christians Exclude Media." October 11, 2009. www.rbc.org

Summery:

The question that was asked was: Given the bad influence of the mass media in modern culture, wouldn't it be best for Christians to exclude it from their lives? They compared getting rid of the media to am Amish man on his carriage in the middle of the night. Vander Lught said that the Amish don't realize how dangerous automobiles are to them. He says that just because TV is not as censored as it once was does not meant that we need to get rid of it. He compared it to modern technology, he said there is both good and bad that can come from it.

Response:

I partly agree with this article it has good points and it has bad points. My favorite point that was made was about how medicine and automobiles there are both good and bad things that can come from them. I think that we should not completely shut out media from our life because I think that t connects us to the world. However, I believe that we have to govern ourselves on what we do and do not see. We have to have the ability to say yes or no.

Uneducated and the Media

"The Media and the Uneducated Masses." 123HelpMe.com. 27 Sep 2009

Summery

This essay talked about how the media in interviews asks very biased questions. They say that they are more interested in getting the person interviewed mad and heated then worrying about the actual answers to the question. Talk show host also have the power to ask questions that they want to get a certain answer for. They have the ability to sway the interview the way that they want. The media also can only share what they want, they can just take segments of things to make it look bad or good.

Reaction:

I think that this is very true. The media can take an interview of politician and cut and piece together just what they want. There questions that they ask always have a person to either make them look good or bad. I think that its stupid that we have different TV stations for different political views. An example is Fox and CNN, Fox is very conservative while on the other hand CNN is very liberal in what they show. When I read this I thought about the movie "Mickey Mouse Monopoly" it is the same concept after a while maybe just one television station will control all the media. When that happens they will have control over the people of the world. Without two sides of a story we would never be able to compare and contrast them.

Media Effect on child weight

Schutte, Shana. "How TV affects your child's weight" September 13, 2009 www.focusonthefamily.com

Summery:

Well this is such a great article. It talked about how kids will eat what they see on TV. it states that children under the age of nine still believe that all advertisements are true. Kids are being greatly influenced by characters that they love. If superman comes in the screen and tells them that he eats Lucky Charms then the kid is going to want that cereal. He wants to be just like superman. the article says that children will gain weight for every hour of TV that they watch. Young people today don't like to be very active and when you combine laziness with food intake there is going to be in increase in obesity. At the end it asks the parents to first better themselves before they buy the cereal for their children.

My response:

I love this article because it describes to me exactly what is wrong with our society today. i love it when people accuse the media of controlling our nation, when was the last time you saw a "5-year-old girl pushing a grocery cart through the snack section at the supermarket". You have never seen that because it is the parents that do most of the grocery shopping. I cant believe parents that give their kids everything that they ask for. All the adults are doing is ruining the lives of their children. Adults need to learn to say no to children even if they give a temper tantrum. I however agree that kids will eat what they see on TV. They want to do what their heroes are doing, that includes what they eat. i think that this is a growing problem and if it is not confronted soon, it will get increasingly worse.

My Media Blog

Beresin, Eugene. "Media violence on children" August 29, 2009 http://www.aacap.org

Summery

This article talked alot about how easy it is to find weapons today. They said that children today have seen so much violence by the time that they are 18 that it is second nature.

that is second nature. They gave some very interesting stats in the article the said that 99% of Americans have televisions. Over 50% of kids have televisions in their room. The typical

American kid will see over 200,000 acts of violence which includes over 16,000 murders before they turn eighteen. It says T.V. programs show 812 acts of violence every hour.

Experts say that children see their Heroes be rewarded for saving the day with violence and try to imitate them. But it starts as soon as 4 years old doctors believe. They say that

children will use the same aggression in the playground that they see on cartoons. Its not only television but as well as music. There was a study that showed music videos were 15% violence.

The article goes on to give precautions to parents. They say to become media literate.

My Reactions

Well i think that this article hit the close to the spot. It was so true just based on my experiences as a child. I always wanted to be the person that saved the day at school or anywhere.

I know that when i was a kid i loved the more violent shows. I loved war movies and i still do but i am not a violent person. There is a way to control you emotions and everyone has to find out how.

I also believe that the parents have a huge effect on what there kids are able to view. It's not always the parents part but they could help reduce the type of children that they raise.

Kids today are becoming very lazy and that has alot to do with the problem. They are staying inside playing video games or watching TV instead of playing outside. This problem is not easily remedied but it

can be solved. We all have to do our own part.

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