Violence_In_The_Media

Violence In The Media Violence in the Media The event we chose which has ethical implications relative to the media is copycat murders and how they are portrayed by the news. At the end of this past summer, there was a tally of about 23 deaths within 10 weeks. This however is not rare at all, especially among families. The Justice Department has records that show in the years of 1976-1999, there were 194 separate killings that included 4 or more members of the family, and that is about eight a year. According to an article that was found on Penfield Library’s Infotrac entitled, US: More Domestic Violence than Muggings & Robberies Combined, “An act of domestic violence has been witnessed by 34 percent of Americans.” The following are four incidences of mass killings that happened this summer. A man, 23 years old, killed his girlfriend and her 5 children that ranged from ages 6 to 12. Another man, 26 years of age, shot his wife and two children (ages 13 and 11), and he also shot his father who 75 years old and his sister, who was 20 years old. An immigrant from the Ukraine, who violence, media, news, years, television, children, violent, should, old, society, journalists, act, tv, right, reporting, public, first, shows, professional, play, mass, killings, feel, ethics, code, age, question, programs, people, parents, new, killed, jennings, family, ethical