Are TV and movies contributing to the violent political rhetoric?

To the editor: Because of contributing author Matt Ok. Lewis, whose op-ed led me to show to a contributor to violent rhetoric in my very own lounge: my TV streaming providers (“Left and right have united in favor of puerile, violent rhetoric,” Oct. 24). How lots of the plots in motion pictures and TV collection have more and more revolved round corrupt, venal, duplicitous leaders from the White Home, CIA, FBI, navy, metropolis or county? And the way lots of the heroes who rise to take revenge and struggle for freedom and the American method are wronged residents, disrespected or disgraced navy veterans or authorities operatives whose spouses have been killed or who expertise a disaster of conscience?

Is it too far-fetched to think about {that a} common shopper of a weight-reduction plan of righteous violence might come to see it as normalized? May some perpetrators of the violence that we’ve seen within the information been primed with televised justification? This may very well be a small ingredient to Lewis’ still-tepid frog-boiling pot, however we’re seeing the bubbles.

Sheldon Roth, Northridge