Sex and Violence in the Media: do we Need Control? The presence of sex and violence has always made truth more difficult to express and harder to understand, especially in mass media. As all the other people in the world, the representatives of the media often face hundreds of problems while trying to achieve success in their profession. This fact is especially true about female representatives of the society they are the weak sex, which can do almost nothing to protect itself and therefore needs protection. At the same time, we have no right to leave men without attention. Although they are not that much weak, they get a good doze of violence throughout their career they become the victims of violent and unjust people as well as women and are hurt not less than they are. First of all, sometimes to receive the name of a representative of the media is not an easy task, especially for women. They have to go through a great lot of obstacles on their way to doing what is their cup of coffee. The first sign of violence which is vividly seen in modern media is the procedure of getting a job through having physical contact with influential people who can provide you with this job. The fact of violence of this kind is widely known.
However, very few measures can be taken to protect people from this. Physical contacts people have are their own business that is why it is very difficult to prove that the contact a potential representative of the media had was performed unwillingly or through violence. Even more, many representatives of the media do not make the facts of sex violence over them widely known as far as they want to save their good reputation. This problem is very vital and surely needs control. But the problem is that it is almost impossible to control situations like this as far as people try not to make their problems of this kind notorious as well as those who perform the acts of violence. It is impossible to control violence in media as well as in ordinary life. Even if such tries have already been made or are made they are not really likely to achieve success as far as violence is an eternal faced of evil which is eternal itself to confront good.
The problem of good and evil itself is an eternal one and its decision has no past, no present and no future. The problem of control over sex in media is as much important as the problem of violence. The appearance of this problem owes to democracy and its absence. The reason is that freedom of speech which is declared in almost every countrys Constitution is hardly ever observed. The situation with the Ukrainian journalist Georgi Gongadze is a vivid example to this. This man wrote only about what he has seen and heard.
He asked the president of Ukraine too direct questions on air and the president had some problems answering. The whole country saw this. And the whole country heard the phone call in which president Kuchma said that he didnt like this journalist and it is better to do something about this problem. And the whole country watched the news when it was reported that Gongadze was found not far from Kyiv without his head. He just wrote something the regime didnt like and he was taken out of the way. This is also an eternal problem. Many organizations and people in power tried to provide freedom of speech and democracy. But although mass media is often called the fourth branch of power, it sometimes appears to have no power at all it can do nothing but write the thing some people want them to and receive money for their work.
By means of violence powerful people make mass media violent itself it cruelly disorients people, gives them false information about the situation in the country and is almost never truthful. This situation can hardly ever be controlled it can no be eliminated. It can only be hidden and thats it. All the measures taken turned out not to be effective. Some representatives of mass media continue earning their dirty money. Sometimes they are made to. Sometimes it is their own will.
However, the fact of violence remains the fact. Sex and violence is surely an unsolved problem. It needs salvation but the way to it is too long for now. Perhaps, some day the issue will be solved and mass media will no longer suffer as well as the recipients of information. Bibliography Barker M., Petley J., Ill Effects: The Media/Violence Debate, Routledge (January 1, 1997) Carter C., Violence and the Media, Open University Press; 1 edition (March 1, 2003) Dudley W., Media Violence: Opposing Viewpoints (Opposing Viewpoints), Greenhaven Press (January 1, 1999) Freedman J., Media Violence and Its Effect on Aggression: Assessing the Scientific Evidence, University of Toronto Press (May 1, 2002) Potter J., The 11 Myths of Media Violence, SAGE Publications (October 23, 2002).