Posted on 04/03/2013 8:54:25 PM PDT by Steelfish
The President Gives Hollywood a Pass on Violence Movies and videogames aren't high among White House concerns.
CAMPBELL BROWN
There was something missing from President Obama's Wednesday speech in Denver about gun violence. He focused almost exclusively on passing gun-control laws, and not at all on one of the nation's biggest promoters of violence: the entertainment industry.
The president's campaign against gun violence has produced a stale debate marked by lots of speeches with little achieved. A more creative chief executive would have used this moment to widen the discussion by drawing attention to the increasingly graphic violence so pervasive in television shows, movies and videogames. Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
In January, when announcing his gun-violence task force, headed by Vice President Biden, Mr. Obama paid lip service to the subject of media violence. The president's gun-control plan, based on Mr. Biden's recommendations, addressed the matter only by asking the Centers for Disease Control to "conduct research on the causes and prevention of gun violence, including links between videogames, media images, and violence." He asked Congress to allocate $10 million for the research. In Washington terms, that's a pittance.
Dr. Victor Strasberger, the leading researcher on media violence for the American Academy of Pediatrics, could tell the CDC and the president what to expect: "All our studies show portraying violence is extremely dangerous," Dr. Strasberger recently told me. "Kids become desensitized, numb to suffering around them and aggressive." He also says that when you add in other factors like poverty, abuse or mental illness, "you have a perfect storm. This can and does ..
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Obamanation Counterculture File.
Remember, she’s married to Dan Senor who served the W Administration from Iraq?
The ‘RATS wouldn’t dare go after Hollywood violence. They rely too heavily on the Hollowoodies’ money to get them elected and reelected and reelected and reelected and...
Campbell Brown, a good Catholic who has now seen the light. Dan Senor struck big.
Yeah, she’s apparently a former Catholic. Her daddy was an utterly corrupt insurance commissioner in Louisiana (is there any other kind there?). I suppose she was divorced and the RCC wouldn’t recognize a 2nd marriage so she converted to Dandy Dab’s religion. It IS easier when you’re having kids if both are the same religion, Since I pulled the plug, haven’t seen either of them.
She can speak the truth now that she’s not on CNN. Did CNN fire her?
Is she now of the Jewish faith?
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