The Greeks even after 16 days are still protesting. Is it really the death of Alexis? The opposition socialist party, which has overtaken the ruling conservatives in opinion polls, has called for elections, and demand them to restore the right set of demogracy. After these comments the prime minister came on the media and promised financial support to every damaged business. The problem is that The Greek Commerce Confederation declared damage to businesses in Athens and only was worth about 200 million euros ($259 million), with 565 shops seriously damaged. Foreign and domestic flights were grounded, banks and schools were shut, and hospitals ran on emergency services as hundreds of thousands of Greeks walked off the job. Is this a country you would like to be these days?
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
TV reaction
Violence has always been a way of entertainment. First Ancient Egyptians were playing the murder of their God Osiris, and then the Roman Empire with their gladiators was providing entertainment to 87,000 people in the Colosseum amphitheatre. Today, the violence provided by the media is extremely dangerous and especially through the television medium.
According to the Laval University professors Guy Paquette and Jacques de Guise who were having a research on six Canadian networks for seven years, analyzing films, comedies, series and children’s programs, the incidents of physical violence increased by 378 per cent. Other researchers Such as Andrea Martinez at the University of Ottawa and L. Rowell Huesmann at the University of Michigan argue that it is the physiological effects of media violence that cause aggressive behavior. Exposure to violent representation is linked to increased heart rate, faster respiration and higher blood pressure.
Psychological or physical, the issue is massive and it gets worst day by day, program by program, series by series, and film by film. According to the new scientist research in the Cyber college service, by the time the average U.S. child starts elementary school he or she will have seen 8,000 murders and 100,00 acts of violence on TV.
Most of the children are watching television after their first year of life. The 2 first years of a child are considered the most critical time for the brain development. Television and other electronic mediums can be reducing the exploration of the child. The healthy way of a child to be normal is by playing and interacting with his or her parents and brothers or sisters, a social development.
According to the Laval University professors Guy Paquette and Jacques de Guise who were having a research on six Canadian networks for seven years, analyzing films, comedies, series and children’s programs, the incidents of physical violence increased by 378 per cent. Other researchers Such as Andrea Martinez at the University of Ottawa and L. Rowell Huesmann at the University of Michigan argue that it is the physiological effects of media violence that cause aggressive behavior. Exposure to violent representation is linked to increased heart rate, faster respiration and higher blood pressure.
Psychological or physical, the issue is massive and it gets worst day by day, program by program, series by series, and film by film. According to the new scientist research in the Cyber college service, by the time the average U.S. child starts elementary school he or she will have seen 8,000 murders and 100,00 acts of violence on TV.
Most of the children are watching television after their first year of life. The 2 first years of a child are considered the most critical time for the brain development. Television and other electronic mediums can be reducing the exploration of the child. The healthy way of a child to be normal is by playing and interacting with his or her parents and brothers or sisters, a social development.
heroes
“Heroes” is a recent series show that has attracted the attention of single viewer from the first episode to the last. The creator and writer of the series “Heroes” Tim Kring, has succeeded in creation of a totally different world of heroes with innovated abilities nobody has seen before. These include regeneration, teleporting, immortality, flying and a variety of abilities that can mislead a child from the reality. After the two fascinating seasons of “Heroes” the director comes with the new season “Villains”.
The hall production is a family series showed on prime time every Monday evening. People are flying out of the windows, passing through fire and ice, jumping from bridges or cutting a piece from their body passing the message that it will regenerate. If a kid watches Spiderman and tries to imitate him then imagine what is going to be if he or she will watches more heroes with more abilities killing each other. Seriously this series are so well directed that anyone can be very easily addicted to it.
After a total eclipse ordinary people gain power. A genetics professor from India Dr Mohinder Suresh comes to New York to find the killer of his father. He discovers that his father has been murdered and he decides to investigate and find the guilty. In the mean-time he discovers that his father has moved to New York because behind this eclipse excuse an organization is hidden from other people with abilities, and has applied to the people those “gifts” as they call it in the film.
Tim Kring, has done extremely beautiful work and the way he has connected all the episodes together is magnificent. An episode comes to the end but is so suspense that nobody can waits till next week and everybody is streaming from the internet. Of course it is a science fiction series but the story and content of how to be a honest hero and protect all people from evil in the film. In the heroes community it is emphasized on how humanity could really disappear if people like these heroes use their power to abuse the rest of the world. An example from the series is the character Syler. He is the greedy person who wants all the abilities from all heroes. He kills them and takes abilities. Clair is a cheerleader that she has discovered that she can regenerate. She falls from buildings, dies, and recovers; or just cuts a finger and the it just comes out again like a flower in fast forward mode of documentaries. If Syler succeeds to take Clair’s ability then nobody could stop him. The rest of the heroes have to cooperate and combine their powers for one reason and only: “Save the cheerleader save the world”.
The hall production is a family series showed on prime time every Monday evening. People are flying out of the windows, passing through fire and ice, jumping from bridges or cutting a piece from their body passing the message that it will regenerate. If a kid watches Spiderman and tries to imitate him then imagine what is going to be if he or she will watches more heroes with more abilities killing each other. Seriously this series are so well directed that anyone can be very easily addicted to it.
After a total eclipse ordinary people gain power. A genetics professor from India Dr Mohinder Suresh comes to New York to find the killer of his father. He discovers that his father has been murdered and he decides to investigate and find the guilty. In the mean-time he discovers that his father has moved to New York because behind this eclipse excuse an organization is hidden from other people with abilities, and has applied to the people those “gifts” as they call it in the film.
Tim Kring, has done extremely beautiful work and the way he has connected all the episodes together is magnificent. An episode comes to the end but is so suspense that nobody can waits till next week and everybody is streaming from the internet. Of course it is a science fiction series but the story and content of how to be a honest hero and protect all people from evil in the film. In the heroes community it is emphasized on how humanity could really disappear if people like these heroes use their power to abuse the rest of the world. An example from the series is the character Syler. He is the greedy person who wants all the abilities from all heroes. He kills them and takes abilities. Clair is a cheerleader that she has discovered that she can regenerate. She falls from buildings, dies, and recovers; or just cuts a finger and the it just comes out again like a flower in fast forward mode of documentaries. If Syler succeeds to take Clair’s ability then nobody could stop him. The rest of the heroes have to cooperate and combine their powers for one reason and only: “Save the cheerleader save the world”.
Living in today's Media world mainly constructed by effective images and persuasive illustrations, bystanders are in a massive concern of what it is real and what it is not. Society is suffering from the ultimate period of audiovisual technological innovations and the ceaseless technological upgrading procedure; after being used by the media for staged representations and made-up statements, only for increasing and insuring personal and financial benefits. In the 21st century people are exposed to Media with their will or against. Radio, television, print media, cinemas, billboards, telephones and internet are everywhere. Consequently the issue becomes even more extensive. Some people believe that good examples can be adopted by violence. For example the violent campaigns against drinking and driving. Violence is an effortless way to create awareness and gain high profile image and publicity in a short time, therefore violence is being used by the Media.
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On Saturday 6th of December 2008, around 10pm in Athens the capital of Greece, Alexis Grigoropoulos happened to be at the wrong place and time. According with the until now evidence from the Greek police, the two caps were driving their car after receiving a call from a citizen about an incident of a fight between some teenagers after a polo game. When the two police officers arrived on the crossroad next to hotspot, thirty people started throwing objects against them. The two police officers as they declare on their testimony drove the car another hundred meters, parked, and got-off running towards to the furious crowd. When the crowd saw the two and only police officers coming to them, instead of running away and avoid to get arrested, they run to them towards. They had a verbal argument and the driver of the police car got scared and used a clatter-blaze grenade (Sound and light). The other police officer took his gun and started fire two times in the air and one on the ground as he claims. According to independent media an eye-witness saw the cop swearing against the young man, showing his genitals just before shooting him.
A massive confusion followed with everybody running away from the scene except the fifteen years old boy Alexis, who was lying gory on the sidewalk with a bullet through his chess. After the ambulance transferred the beardless child to the hospital his death was ascertain. The day after, when media started “informing” the nation about this lugubrious incident, the crowd got emotionally disturbed. Students, parents, friends, women, children, everybody in every corner of Greece was in the streets protesting against the government and the police-killers. The question here is: Do the Media really care about this death or it is a perfect marketing material for the representation of the facts? Of course the death has to be alerting not only in Greece but in the hall world but not with this continuously provoking broadcasting. The nation is in danger. Why? Because of the Greek anarchists who are always looking for a chance to get on the streets and make noise, and because of the homeless who became vandals and are destroying every single shop not to protest but to take everything that is inside the glass since none can control them.
There is not a single video to show clearly what really happened. There are some videos with screaming and gunshots, articles everywhere describing the incident in the sixtieth seventh different version, radio in the streets broadcasting the national anthem, pictures with destroyed materials or landscapes and demonstrations, television with headlines that the current government is unable to handle, and the opposition ready to manage. . Now is this the first time that the politicians are using the Media as a weapon? What is it really hidden behind this story? Is mass Media going to create mass destruction to the hall nation? That is the future and we don’t know. What we really know is history and that a similar event happened in Greece on the November 23, 1963 when the coup d’ιtat by the Greek Junta came to control the people and until now is known as an unacceptable action written in history and the politicians have two feet in one shoe. If the police cannot handle then who is going to handle who?
Nowadays with all these technological innovations and the unlimited quality effects, it is the answer that Media in order to be financially satisfied, are able to stage everything in order to manipulate not only Alexis family, not only the Greek nation, but all the world, or with the help of media and only the situation is going to get better. Step one reduce violence…
On Saturday 6th of December 2008, around 10pm in Athens the capital of Greece, Alexis Grigoropoulos happened to be at the wrong place and time. According with the until now evidence from the Greek police, the two caps were driving their car after receiving a call from a citizen about an incident of a fight between some teenagers after a polo game. When the two police officers arrived on the crossroad next to hotspot, thirty people started throwing objects against them. The two police officers as they declare on their testimony drove the car another hundred meters, parked, and got-off running towards to the furious crowd. When the crowd saw the two and only police officers coming to them, instead of running away and avoid to get arrested, they run to them towards. They had a verbal argument and the driver of the police car got scared and used a clatter-blaze grenade (Sound and light). The other police officer took his gun and started fire two times in the air and one on the ground as he claims. According to independent media an eye-witness saw the cop swearing against the young man, showing his genitals just before shooting him.
A massive confusion followed with everybody running away from the scene except the fifteen years old boy Alexis, who was lying gory on the sidewalk with a bullet through his chess. After the ambulance transferred the beardless child to the hospital his death was ascertain. The day after, when media started “informing” the nation about this lugubrious incident, the crowd got emotionally disturbed. Students, parents, friends, women, children, everybody in every corner of Greece was in the streets protesting against the government and the police-killers. The question here is: Do the Media really care about this death or it is a perfect marketing material for the representation of the facts? Of course the death has to be alerting not only in Greece but in the hall world but not with this continuously provoking broadcasting. The nation is in danger. Why? Because of the Greek anarchists who are always looking for a chance to get on the streets and make noise, and because of the homeless who became vandals and are destroying every single shop not to protest but to take everything that is inside the glass since none can control them.
There is not a single video to show clearly what really happened. There are some videos with screaming and gunshots, articles everywhere describing the incident in the sixtieth seventh different version, radio in the streets broadcasting the national anthem, pictures with destroyed materials or landscapes and demonstrations, television with headlines that the current government is unable to handle, and the opposition ready to manage. . Now is this the first time that the politicians are using the Media as a weapon? What is it really hidden behind this story? Is mass Media going to create mass destruction to the hall nation? That is the future and we don’t know. What we really know is history and that a similar event happened in Greece on the November 23, 1963 when the coup d’ιtat by the Greek Junta came to control the people and until now is known as an unacceptable action written in history and the politicians have two feet in one shoe. If the police cannot handle then who is going to handle who?
Nowadays with all these technological innovations and the unlimited quality effects, it is the answer that Media in order to be financially satisfied, are able to stage everything in order to manipulate not only Alexis family, not only the Greek nation, but all the world, or with the help of media and only the situation is going to get better. Step one reduce violence…
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