No. Cain and Abel didn't have TV or Nintendo.
TV violence in the past, didn’t glorify it, but did distinguish between good & bad.
They spend 200,000,000 on a two hour movie because they know it’ll manipulated people’s emotions: Laugh, cry, anger....Violence maybe. Only a fool would doubt the link between violent movies/ video games and real violence.
The news media is responsible for far, far more murder and mayhem in this nation than any violent movie fiction.
We would never say: media portrayals of flamboyant homosexuals leads to support for homosexuals...
We would never say: entertainment media portrayals of gang banging thugs with falsified police "rap sheets" leads to thuggish behavior among a certain segment of society...
Leftist political rhetoric sure does
Ok, the real question taken to generics would be this, does exposure to media representations lead to behavioral choices and/or changes?
Obviously Madison Avenue believes that the answer is yes as we have had advertiser supported media for almost forever.
Real world, real people and I never even applied for a government grant!
Isn't this the logic that liberals used to force "The Three Stooges", Loonytoons etc. off of broadcast TV>
You mean things such as Django and The Butler, both fictionalized accounts calculated to stir up black hostility?
The people who benefit, btw, are mostly white (Hollywood) or politicians, such as Obama, to whom maintaining an angry black underclass is very important.
Mark Millar,a creator of the “Kick-Ass” comic book series and one of the movie’s executive producers, responded that he has “never quite bought the notion that violence in fiction leads to violence in real life any more than Harry Potter casting a spell creates more boy wizards in real life.”
Or that Mein Kampf had anything to do with killing jews?
Estrella TV was recently added to my cable package. All Mexico - all the time. Can't stand 99% of it but I'm GLUED whenever Alarma TV news comes on. (And not just because of whatever hot babe is co-hosting.) Brutal stuff. A few days ago, they aired video of a few folks floating in a river after their faces were burned off. (Fast & Furious victims? Dunno.) Real life - wherever it happens.
In movies, it's used to send messages. What happens to these Mafiosos in the movies? They get offed. That's part of the lesson.
No. Cain and Abel didn't have TV or Nintendo.
Media violence teases sick minds.
carrey is an azzhole of the first magnitude... Normal people wouldn't say it, but there is a bunch of FReepers who say it all the time.
It can’t help the weakest among us.
Given the concern the left voices over a gun crazed culture it’s interesting how much they ignore the violence in media.
The left sells the violence, starts the race wars, uses the media money for funding and works to disarm us.
The MSM promotes violence and racism.
East Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office officials say they believe an 8-year-old intentionally pulled the trigger and killed an elderly woman Thursday evening right after playing ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’
http://www.wafb.com/story/23242078/investigators-believe-8-year-old-intentionally-killed-90-year-old-woman