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It is commonly questioned "why students have now become so violent" (Greenberg 214), and the answer is commonly related to that of media influence. The more violence that children consume from movies and media alike, the more likely it is that they themselves will become violent. After airing the movie Pet Sematary several times on daytime television, it quickly became a well-known movie. Shawn Novak found scary movies to be intriguing and prominent. Some believed that Stephen King movies "fed his anger, and provoked him to act out that anger" (Beals 234), which ultimately was the action of murder. A college journalism professor who advises a Mass Media and Society course continuously enforces the statement, "Do not take anything you see in the media as if it was factual or true" (Reed). It is difficult for some children, especially those who grow up watching violent movies, to distinguish what is right from what is wrong. .
America, more than any nation in this world, whether it is by greed or availability, glamorizes media violence in such a way that it seems as fictional in news reports as it does on the television screen. The media desensitizes the common American child from the severity of violence by repeating and overplaying violent visions of such seen and heard in media programming, which dangerously blurs the line for the everyday consumer to identify fact from fiction. Media tends to unintentionally promote a negative influence on today's society. It portrays death as a statistic or headline as opposed to the loss of life and tragedy detained by family and friends of the victim. Much in common with Pre-WWI Nazi schooling, the constant beating of ideas and views into a child's mind can lead to an abstract and twisted view of the world and can make any idea, no matter how unorthodox or morally wrong it may be, seem like a good one. .
It seems that the more children are given the availability to watch movies that glamorize homicide, the greater the potential for them to fancy the idea of killing.
