Alex Chandler Vexed By Social Media

     A brief on my topic so we can discuss stakeholders. I'm specifically focusing on the moral responsibility to the citizens of the USA that the film industry has, or should be more in charge of. That being said my position is that film producers, and everyone who forms the story line, and decides what is shown has some moral responsibility to the viewers, and in the case of American films, the citizens of the USA. It has become too widely accepted, and shown in film that illegal drug use is okay, this covers everything (underage drinking, marijuana, drugs in general). These sort of motion pictures have an impact on everyone.
    The stake holders; film industry, drug trade, police, US citizens, teachers, parents, and surely more. The film industry has an entire ideology to change, they would have to change their mindset. Much like when tobacco companies were no longer allowed to pay for product placement - and yet 87% of top box office films in the past decade showed smoking, (CMCH). So they have monetary gain to loose. The drug trade is a stake holder because they are directly affected when the drug demand starts to go down, one big one is the marijuana coming over the Mexican border. The police would like this because it would lessen the amount of illegal partying, drunk drivers, and much more that they have to investigate and fill out paperwork for. US citizens will be all over the board on this one, because if they do drugs they like seeing that media accepts it as an okay action in society, so they can go on feeling good about themselves. And those who are against it, or have had to be surrounded by the pain the drugs have caused in their lives will be for it as to hopefully save lives, and keep others from feeling the pain they may have gone through. Teachers would probably like their students to actually be mentally present in class, rather than floating off in space, or dealing with a serious headache, and that goes for all teachers starting in middle school and upward. Parents more than likely care enough about their offspring that they would prefer them not to be infected by images of drug use. And maybe even feel safe enough to put a TV in their child's room without worrying what might be in that G rated movie they haven't seen (one fourth of G rated films in the last decade contained smoking), (CMCH).
    If representatives from all of these stakeholders came together for a dinner there would be all sorts of clamor. Some would quickly agree with each other, and others would start up in arguing immediately, and some might argue within their own stakeholder representation. The biggest argument for drugs to be shown in films is that of free speech, and that's what film companies, drug traders, and some citizens would argue. While others would argue about the mortality, and in the end one agreement they may come to, would be not to allow for paid advertising of drug use to be shown in films, but that would only be the beginning of the battle against it, and no one would go home happy.

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