Media Effects

In the article by Theresa Cronin, she makes an argument stating that through being bombarded with images of sex and violence in film, that it is not surprising that people will try and make a correlation between violence in film and violence at home. Thus the reason for such things as censorship. If the viewer is not exposed to such atrocities therefore they will not commit such acts against others. She explains that the viewer is seen as easily influenced and helpless so such censorship is believed to be needed to help protect them. In the end, no proof has actually been found, instead all people have is their assumptions that the two are related.