Although some parents whose musical tastes are more reserved might find rock music aesthetically offensive, the lyrics often reflect the frustrations and uncertainties of adolescence and strike a responsive chord in impressionable teenagers (Bayles 34). ... However, when the musical lyrics and music videos contain obscenities, indecencies, and glorifications of certain forms of immoral conduct, such as drug abuse, ethical considerations arise in connection with the distribution of such material to a youthful audience. ... Rappers like Mack 10, Korn, and Marilyn Manson use extremely explicit ly...

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The media can largely be blamed for the worldwide increase in violence. The complex age of elaborate laptops, portable color televisions in every room, and pocket radio the size of a basic calculator have all taken their toll on society. Today the world has a variety of problems. Violence is aroun...

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In Jonesboro, Arkansas, at least one of the boys accused in the attack "Mitchell Johnson "was a big fan of the genre of music called "gangsta rap- which depicts violent and deviant acts in the lyrics of the songs, (Kreiner, p. 75.) ...

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As people look for someone to hold responsible for the action, blame can be attached to a variety of objects: guns, knives, and other weapons, violent images on television and in movies, violent video games, and violent lyrics in songs. ...

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Video games have become more refined, more realistic, and more gruesome than ever. A large amount of developmental and psychological research has focused on the relationship between violent video games and the negative outcomes among children and adolescents, such as aggression, hostility, anti-social behavior, delinquency, decreased empathy, and video game addiction (Adachi and Willoughby). Several hundred studies have been conducted focusing on these issues and many results have been produced, showing that violent video games do have a negative affect on the psyche of the youth players. Thou...

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A public boycott of violent programming, lyrics, and movies, apparently, is the only way to make the "production staffs accept media violence first and foremost as potentially damaging, rather than regarding it principally as potential entertainment- (Belson 527). ...

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