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Yeah, every 12 year old kid might wanna talk and act like Keanu Reeves after the Matrix series came out...
The copycat effect on violence is more frightening than the celebrity imitations, though.
But these effects only do take place on few cases...I mean the guys who shoot up schools or snipe out civilians are still kind of crazy to begin with, right? I don't see myself blowing up in a crowd of people because the media overexposes terrorist suicide bombings..
Even if the media pushes them (the crazy people) to use that destructive potential in a certain way, what tells us they wouldn't have killed people in a different sick and original way if the media did not over expose this violence?
Or maybe what pushes them to violence is watching(or rather seeing) CNN for hours and seeing those images repeating themselves for hours through and let them take over their system...
Its true that media, with a lot of close up images and videos of scenes of violence makes these horrible acts seem normal....they become a part of everyday life.
I dunno, its all scary. Even the TV news isn't safe anymore...
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