TV isnt
TV Isn’t Violent Enough
In the short story “T.V. isn’t Violent enough,” author Mike Oppenheim humorously defends the idea that TV shows and movies are simply not violent enough. Oppenheim begins by introducing to readers his love for medicine and aspirations of being a doctor since being a teenager. In the story the doctor explains that the human body can’t react to certain traumas as directors and special effects show on television. He defends this claim by using an example of an daytime killer who kill women in their hotel rooms in daylight, but the hero showing up just minutes later alluding to the fact that you can’t possibly kill someone by stabbing them that rapid and fleeing because it takes more time to actually cut veins and arteries to make them bleed to death. He goes on to speak about a more known incident that of President Reagan being shot, he explains that TV teaches us how he should have responded which is the typical actions of clutching his chest, falling backwards before hitting the ground, but instead he just complained of minor chest pains later to find out he was shot. Oppenheim uses the claim that Critics of TV violence claims it teaches children sadism and cruelty, but disagree by saying “Children can’t learn to enjoy cruelty from neat, sanitized mayhem on the average series. There isn’t any. In all, after extensive detail about TV violence, Oppenheim closes by urging parents to stop campaigning to clean up TV because TV is already to antiseptic and really does no harm to a child.
In the short story “T.V. isn’t Violent enough,” author Mike Oppenheim humorously defends the idea that TV shows and movies are simply not violent enough. Oppenheim begins by introducing to readers his love for medicine and aspirations of being a doctor since being a teenager. In the story the doctor explains that the human body can’t react to certain traumas as directors and special effects show on television. He defends this claim by using an example of an daytime killer who kill women in their hotel rooms in daylight, but the hero showing up just minutes later alluding to the fact that you can’t possibly kill someone by stabbing them that rapid and fleeing because it takes more time to actually cut veins and arteries to make them bleed to death. He goes on to speak about a more known incident that of President Reagan being shot, he explains that TV teaches us how he should have responded which is the typical actions of clutching his chest, falling backwards before hitting the ground, but instead he just complained of minor chest pains later to find out he was shot. Oppenheim uses the claim that Critics of TV violence claims it teaches children sadism and cruelty, but disagree by saying “Children can’t learn to enjoy cruelty from neat, sanitized mayhem on the average series. There isn’t any. In all, after extensive detail about TV violence, Oppenheim closes by urging parents to stop campaigning to clean up TV because TV is already to antiseptic and really does no harm to a child.