Shaggy- It wasn't me

Why do people blame the media for all the wrong doing in the world?

I didn't know that the television raised your child, told them to have premarital sex, wear baggy clothes and where to buy the nearest pistol.

I didn't know that.

I didn't know that the radio taught them derogatory terminology, ghetto tendencies or how to pop lock it drop it.

Man I did not know that.

I didn't know the magazines made them dress like prostitutes to show all their goodies while giving instructions on how to insert weave and leave their snot nose children at their mother's house.

Was it just me who thought that parents' raised children and the things that are portrayed in the media are just that... a portrayal: the act or process of depicting; a representation or description of what is going on in the world today.

Media representatives are showing you what is being done, not showing you what is to do. And if one is highly influenced by the material being shown, that means that the parents are not influential enough because their child let a portrayal become a tutorial.

With me being a member of the media, I take strong offense to people who blame the media for the crime, misfortune and misdirection of the world. Someone has to be doing it already for the media to have the knowledge. Someone had to be wearing baggy pants for me to record them, put them on the television for your child to see. So the media is simply informing your child that this is happening around them, their duty should have been to take that information and spread it to his or her peers. Instead they supposedly see it and do it and now the media is to blame.

Umm, don't blame me for doing my job, blame yourself for not doing yours. Because I'm with Shaggy on this one: It wasn't me!