Negative Effect of TV News Crime and Violence Television news, due primarily to its obsession with crime and violence, definitely has a negative impact upon our society. TV news is basically an oxymoron; giving us the skin of the truth stuffed with a lie. A news program should be focused on the facts, with perhaps some objective analysis. However, for business purposes, TV news broadcasts use dramatic, usually violent stories and images to capture and …showed first 75 words of 711 total…

…showed last 75 words of 711 total…worth presenting. But is this really news, and is it a responsible thing for the networks to be doing, or is it a blatant abuse of power? The journalistic "powers that be", rather than to simply show us the devastation that has already occurred, just for its "entertainment" value. Thus, violence generates violence; fear generates fear; and the dismal world depicted on the evening news becomes one that we all relate to and live by.