Negative Effect of TV News Crime and Violence Television news, due primarily to its obsession with crime and violence, definitely has a negative impact upon our society. TV news is basically an oxymoron; giving us the skin of the truth stuffed with a lie. A news program should be focused on the facts, with perhaps some objective analysis. However, for business purposes, TV news broadcasts use dramatic, usually violent stories and images to capture and …
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…worth presenting. But is this really news, and is it a responsible thing for the networks to be doing, or is it a blatant abuse of power? The journalistic "powers that be", rather than to simply show us the devastation that has already occurred, just for its "entertainment" value. Thus, violence generates violence; fear generates fear; and the dismal world depicted on the evening news becomes one that we all relate to and live by.