When our loved ones die we look to blame and punish those responsible. Blaming entertainment for disasters as one of Littleton, Colorado is a myth. Although, many argue strong perspectives that forms of entertainment such as film, music, internet, and video games do have dramatic effect on today's youths. After the Littleton shootings, many points of view accusing warped entertainment, have been stressed tremendously, many of which seem to be sense making opinions. It is a fact that children today use technology as form of "fun" more often then ever before. "Kids now spend an average of four and a half hours a day at home in front of some sort of screen, according to a 2000 study of more than 1,200 families by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania". "The amount of time children spend ingesting media is the second-greatest amount of time they spe

nd doing anything during childhood, besides sleep," said Dr. Don Shifrin, a University of Washington clinical professor of pediatrics and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Public Education. "It's the equivalent of a child being in front of a screen 24 hours a day, every day, for 10 full weeks each year". Many of the pictures that come across young people's eyes through today's entertainment sources include graphic violence and sexually explicit images. So, did the movies really made them do it?

As a teenager, growing up in a nation behind "the iron curtain" my peers and I didn't have access to motion pictures glamorizing graphic violence, let alone sexual contact the way "they" did in the far away west. It was so until the so called illegal VCR theaters opened up all over the country. In such a place, for a buck I, at the age of thirteen could fulfill my hunger for western sex and violence thoroughly. One day after such session I involved myself in a physical argument with one of my classmates. Without giving a second thought I threw a sidekick, I saw in a Bruce Lee movie a day before, making my opponent "take off the gloves". Indeed my violent act was inspired by a picture depicting it. Would I have acted in the same way bef

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