Do TV Shows Teach People How To Be Criminals?
With so many crime show on TV it's hard not to watch. The criminals in some these prime time shows are masters at their craft. Do you think sometimes TV shows go to far showing how fictional criminals get away with a crime?
Reference: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296945,00.html
Posted By Rocky-Mt-High on September 16, 2007
TV doesn't teach people how to be criminals so much as it teaches them h...
Posted By Perdie on September 17, 2007
It's sad to say but I think with TV's quest to make each show as real as...
Posted By Rocky-Mt-High on September 16, 2007
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Yea, I think you can learn a lot of bad things from TV shows
TV doesn't teach people how to be criminals so much as it teaches them how to be BETTER ones.
-- Posted By Perdie on September 17, 2007Someone who isn't a criminal isn't likely to become one from watching television, but there's no doubt in my mind that a criminal will look for new ways to get something for nothing. Writers are clever and unwittingly provide these ways. .
It's sad to say but I think with TV's quest to make each show as real as possible we may be
-- Posted By Rocky-Mt-High on September 16, 2007creating a new breed of criminals that get their ideas and knowledge from TV. While some of what we see is impossible other things are not.It would be easy to get enough . knowledge from a TV show to at least plan a crime. These TV programs need to be more careful. .
No , That's silly. It's only TV
People make choices themselves. TV/Internet/other media can not be used as an excuse.
TV is mostly just for a passive entertaining.
t.v is just ENTERTAINMENT if you actually think that it is teaching you and you go out and do it, it just means you are naturally DUMB!
I have been watching violent movies and such since i was like 5 but i know that it is wrong to go around killing people or doing violent things. I just know that its wrong and that im not psycho. I think people today just don't have a mind of their own so they are letting tv teach them.
First of all, television is written by writers, not criminal masterminds. It's primarily based on figments of imagination based on the what-if game. In the cases where an idea was sparked by real life events, the crime was committed first in the real world and therefore can't be said to have been inspired by television.
By the time an idea has been expressed on TV, the likelihood that it will work in the streets is almost nil. That is assuming the idea was plausible in the first place.
If criminals were getting ideas from TV, wouldn't law enforcement catch on pretty quick and start watching too?
To say criminals learn how to do bad things from television is as silly as saying that doctors learn to practice medicine from shows like ER and House.
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