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Media Stereotypes

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People's perception of the world around is changing. Everyday a television is turned on and people are exposed to differing opinions. Sometimes people can get lost in all this, they would not be able to tell right from wrong. The younger generations will especially be hit with this more since they are growing up in such a dividing time of where every one person has a opinion. Yes, some of these opinions can be great, but a lot of them can be extremely awful. The media influences people’s actions, perception of the world, and thought process.
Censorship of media on television, news, or in movies is nothing new. This has been going on for decades. Knowing that movies, cartoons and media in general could influence the thinking of the general public, the general feeling was that it needed to be controlled. The most prominent point related to this problem was in the 1930s when the Hays Code was put into place in Hollywood as a set …show more content…

It did not do anything. No matter how people look at it it did nothing. Hollywood did not try anything because a code was not going to stop what they wanted most, money (Speaking the Code 25). But the code officially died of in the early 1960s being replaced with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). This used as the new Hays Code. They are the ones the rate the films from either being G, PG, PG-13, R, or NC-17. This of course makes all the old rules inefficient so there are some new rules. The major one is they have to have a two-thirds majority rule on the rating. This of course leads to some questionable decisions. They have to decide whether or not the language is suitable and the rule is it all as to be used appropriately. Some other rules are; nudity can be in PG films but depending on how it is shown it will be a R, violence can be shown in G movies but as soon as it seems intense it must be a higher rating. But all in all this is a better way to censor what is

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