Topic > CWA's Analysis of Music's Deadly Influence (Concerned...

The CWA (or Concerned Women for America) published an article titled "Music's Deadly Influence" on August 3, 1999. The article was released when the music industry would have reached the peak of its involvement in society. TV had channels for music, CD players and various Walkmans were the biggest sellers, and music could be purchased everywhere, including the Internet of this article was to serve as a general warning to parents and various other authority figures about the music industry and its effects on young people. The article was published under the CWA, which is an organization founded on "action and prayer" by Beverly LaHaye, and has a primarily right-wing reputation in news and political issues. This article fails to establish a problem with the media and young people and uses adverse techniques that cause the article to lose credibility due to its assessment of the content of. this article and its purpose. approaches moral panic from a non-objective point of view and constructs a bigger problem and an exaggerated view of the situation. The problem presents itself as a disease, the extent and direction of which appear to be all-encompassing and highly dangerous. It mentions that the article "does not... propose that popular music is the sole cause of violence, but... demonstrate[s] how it contributes to destructive and violent behavior" and includes other statements, such as that the author of the document Mr. Thomas L. Jippling "does not provide a general statement on all popular music, but... highlights its prevalence". These claims are made in the article, but instead they cover an 18-page document that serves as a comprehensive manual for eliminating a problem that is quite extensive.......half of the paper..., turned nothing conclusive. The CWA's claims about music's great hold on young people and inciting "drug use" and "suicide" fail to contribute to other factors that are individual to a person. For example, “one killer, Lee Marlvo, [who supposedly had a history of playing video games that contributed to his violent nature], but was not acknowledged to have “a history of criminal activity and antisocial [behavior].” Olson points out in his article that the connections of these factors are vague, as in the CWA article, the moral panic has no clear and established link, and the CWA article falls into the typical moral panic that has come and gone over the years, in which it wants fall. create a connection that doesn't exist and brings a false cloud of fear to the audience and tries to translate the "problem" into big solutions, returns to tradition and has control over..