Honorable Judges, Fellow classmates, Worthy Opponents.
The resolution before ustoday, BIRT the media is sensitive and responsible is absolutely incorrect. We thenegative team firmly believe this to be true, and plan to tell you why.
If the media WAS sensitive and responsible
, we would not be living in such aviolent, crime-filled, immorality infested world as we do today!
Violence in television programs
and movies are harmful for many fundamental psychological reasons. The lack of responsibility on the part the broadcaster has a criticalaffect on society.
As the years pass, the responsibility and sensibility
of the media has rapidlydeclined. Television and radio twenty years ago was not nearly as bad as it is today. Over the past 10 years, there has been a significant increase in the amount of bad scenes ontelevision.
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On a per-hour basis,
sexual content
more than tripled.
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Material in the
sexual subcategories
was more than seven times asfrequent.
•
Foul language
was more than five and a half times as frequent
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And the most dramatic increase was in
homosexual references
, whichwere more than twenty-four times as common!
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One show, UPN's
WWF Smackdown!
-
was responsible for more than 11 per cent of all the combined sex, cursing, and violence in 1999
If this increase continues
, the influence of media on the population will continueto do what it's done for the past century. There is only one direction this world will go in- Anarchy!
Television, radio, the internet, and other forms of media
were invented for a purpose. Their invention was to facilitate the transfer of information from one place toanother. They were definitely NOT designed to change our moral values and replacethem by promoting explicit scenes, violence, obscene language, nudity, homosexuality,materialism, and others still yet to come.
Violence is what we thrive on
. It is for this exact reason that media broadcastersshow it! They know deep down inside we want to see it, so they'll make tons of money byshowing it!
Media coverage is really getting out of control.
Live coverage of gruesomeaccidents and crime are not uncommon - even interrupting children's cartoons. Is showingviolence to young minds sensitivity? Absolutely not.
One of the local television news stations in Virginia
chose to do a feature on thewidespread crime of
car jacking
after a couple of cars supposedly were car jacked. In thereport, the news anchor reported extensive details documenting how characters steal cars.The week after the story aired, the number of car jackings shot up in the area. Althoughthe local television station was hoping to increase awareness of the problem, they, in fact,gave criminals a sure-fire recipe for success.
So Since when is it responsibility to show this unnecessary coverage anddamaging information?
It is NOT responsibility to be dishonest when we sell a car, It is NOT responsibility to sell drugs on the street, and is NOT the media's responsibility toshow garbage to the common people!The biggest stress of a news company is not to be careful of what they show, butwhat they can do to stay ahead of the competition and make the most money.
"Television can teach you many things"
What can Television teach other than to hate, steal, kill people, swear and so on?The little that Television can teach you can easily be
replaced by a good book
. If you'resaying that television is a teaching tool, then you're saying I'm uneducated. Trash on TVis one of the main reasons that my parents didn't let a TV into the house until I was tenyears old! And do I miss it? No. In fact, I have no time for it because I spend that timedoing more worthwhile things.
"The internet helps people"
Indeed, the internet is a vast source for information.
But is it really informationthat we need?
Is it the result of a lack of information that parents will get divorced? Is it because of a lack of information that causes a building to burn down? No! of course itisn't. almost everything happens from judgements based on morality and wisdom, whichis exactly what the media mocks! Perhaps we should consider that, in both society andschools, there is too much information. This does not promote pure knowledge, justconfusion.The internet poses great changes on the real reason why school exists.
School doesnot exist so we can cram
as much information as possible into our brain for aknowledgeable future. School exists so that we may learn about responsibility, courage,leadership, friendship, wisdom, and countless others which the internet cannot give or teach whatsoever. Even though the internet may be good for chatting, the internet has been proven to be associated with symptoms of social isolation, such as depression andloneliness. This is because people will replace time normally spend with other living people, to type messages into a keyboard.
Newspapers are often as irresponsible as television broadcasters
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