Media violence: Formal Tone

This particular article talked about how violence has plagued society consistently for a long period of time. The author provided various examples of drugs, inadequate parenting, availability of weapons, unemployment as causes of violence. Not only that, the author displayed examples relating to media such as: TV, newspapers, comic books etc. It was interesting to see how the reader displayed the low end of violence and the extreme end. I noted that the author used statistics to back up their arguments and one point that stood out to me was how television affects people in different ways, and its hard to see the effects because of the variation of it. It was a strong point, because it explained about the complexity about it. However, the author could use more facts to back up statements like these.

For a formal tone, this was a bit under par. It seemed like it needed some more life into it, and the audience may not be interested. I think its good how the facts were placed, but its important to use more devices to attract interest and make the piece more formal. There were some capital errors where the writer put TV in lower case t.v. I think it was an alright piece to read, but some sections did not seem formal and it was more on a causal level. It wasn't the worst nor was it the greatest, it was more in between.