Bowling For Columbine Film Analysis

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The media are just feeding use with violence because it sells, the more blood and guts the better the ratings. While researching this topic I watched Bowling For Columbine and in the film Barry Glassner author of the Culture of Fear was interviewed and he had a jarring statistic from his book “The murder rate went down by twenty percent the coverage that is that is how many murders on the evening news went up six hundred percent.” That is astounding that we as a society are killing each other less, but would be mislead into thinking the opposite. The media really do do an incredible job in scaring us. In fact in the same part of the film Moore interviews the County Prosecutor of Flint Arthur Busch who agreed with Barry and my sentiment that the media is purposely scaring people with polarizing news just for rating even if it skews the actual data “The American people are conditioned by network tv by local news to believe that their communities are much more dangerous than the actually are for example here in this community crime has decreased every year for the past eight years yet gun ownership particularly handgun ownership is on the increase.” The media has us right where they want us on the edge of our seat wanting more and more, tuning in every week to stay updated. …show more content…
America is one of the safest countries on Earth and crime is not high, however we are one of the most frightened countries on Earth, thanks to the media. In the film Moore goes to Canada which is like our cousin they have the same problems we do, but way less incidents of violence. While in Canada he watched the news and their station reported on things other than crime. People in Canada are not scared at all in fact Moore learned that most Canadians do not lock their doors, which he tried out and found to be
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