Our Children are Violent: Is the Media Really to Blame? Why are children our so violent? What has changed so much over the years to make today’s children so angry, so aggressive? Many people attribute the increase in violent youth to the increase of violence in the media. “If people are fed a daily diet of murder, crime and violence, many come to believe that sort of thing is normal” (Foegen). There is a …showed first 75 words of 1038 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1038 total…are watching is fiction, not reality. Violence is not acceptable. WORKS CITED Foegen, J.H. “Newspapers as Behavior Modifiers?” Editor & Publisher 9 Sep. 1996: 52-53. EBSCOhost. CD-ROM. 11 Nov. 2000. Grossman, Dave. “We are Training Our Kids to Kill.” Saturday Evening Post Sep./Oct. 1999: 54-59. EBSCOhost. CD-ROM. 11 Nov. 2000. Kantrowitz, Barbara. “Is This Too Raw for Kids?” Newsweek 7 Feb. 2000: 52. Rhodes, Richard. “The Media-Violence Myth.” Rolling Stone 23 Nov. 2000: 55-58. “Violence and the Media: Influence on American Youth.” Congressional Digest Nov. 1999: 266-288.