Adolescence and the Media - Informal Tone

Adolescence and the Media - Informal Tone

This persuasive piece was nicely organized with the subheadings it made it a lot easier to read and didn’t bore me out as the Media Violence (Informal Tone). The subheadings of the piece helped it seem more organized, and easy to read. However, piece was short and to the point unlike some of the other pieces. The criticism was quite effective in getting the message across and the coverage of the debatable topics was key toward the major points of the piece. The informal tone of this piece made the structure, content and style of the piece not as effective.

As far as content is concerned, I feel the author did a great job because he clearly describes how media violence affected children and teens. The explanation not only mentioned the impact on teen violence, but also involved drugs, sex, etc. As stated in the article children and teens are viewing at least one junk food or beer ad every commercial break. The ability to use statistics to give his opinions some support helped hammer his arguments. “There are more than 1000 studies linking exposure to media violence to real-life aggressive behaviour.”

To say the truth I find this topic quite stupid because of the arguments, each side continues to accuse the other of doing wrong things. The parents accuse the media; than the media accuses the parents again it’s all a circle that keeps repeating itself.

Most importantly I have found this article quite interesting and effective although it is an informal piece, the main argument gets across quite clearly.