Do TV and Movies Contribute to Violent Political Expressions?

To the editor: Thanks to contributing writer Matt K. Lewis, whose edit prompted me to turn to a contributor to violent rhetoric in my living room: My TV Streaming Services (“The left and the right are united in favor of poor, violent rhetoric.” October 24). How many plots in movies and television increasingly revolve around corrupt, brutal, double-edged leaders from the White House, the CIA, the FBI, the military, the city or the country? And how many of the heroes who rise up to avenge and fight for freedom and the American way are oppressed citizens, dishonored or humiliated military veterans or government employees whose spouses have been killed or who are experiencing a crisis of conscience?

Is it too far-fetched to imagine that a regular consumer of a diet of righteous violence might see it as normal? Could some of the perpetrators of violence we see on the news be televised? This may be a small ingredient for Lewis’s Hot Sparkling Boiling Pot, but we’re seeing bubbles.

Sheldon Roth, Northridge