The purpose of Jonathan Freedman’s essay “Violence in the Mass Media and Violence in Society: The Link is Unproven,” is to prove that research has failed to show a connection between media violence and actual violence. Foremost, he claims that the experiments are not measuring the right thing. Next, he argues that less aggression has been shown in the results of many studies. Furthermore, he shows that some experiment outcomes have been misunderstood.
Freedman argues that the measures used to judge the amount of aggression are cynical. The most unproblematic method to carry out a genuine test is to find out if children who are exposed to additional violent programs are prone to be more aggressive. Freedman points out that even thou
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