Author of what? Political philosophy?
The written word has probably done more to shape culture than any other medium.
I suppose you exempt yourself from this argument.
Author.
Writer
This.Any kind of author, particularly those who can grab the interest of young and simple minds. Screenplay for movies and storyline for computer games included. Those who can develop stories that make people understand why something happened on a psychological level and how it can be made to happen again or avoided in a real life situation. People develop most of their belief structure from a majority of their interest, the easiest one to include as such would be movies and TV-series.
Anything.Author of what? Political philosophy?
That's destructive, not creative.Influential? hmmm.
War General
Artist
No, lyrics and art are only meaningful to people whom they already resonate with.Rapper.
Yeah, well.Spite it, I do not believe movies and games are reasons for crime, much more important factors are.