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Thanks for this posting, Ray.
It makes me wonder what impact living amidst inescapable real daily violence
has on Palestinians and Israelis. Thoughts, anyone?
Lawrence
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> Of Ray Recchia
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>
>
> Just something that caught my eye
>
> >Science - 29 March 2002
> >
> >The effect of Media Violence on Society (excerpted)
> >Craig A. Anderson and Brad J. Johnson
> >
> > Concerns about the negative effects of prolonged exposure to
> > violent television programming emerged shortly after broadcasting began
> > in 1946. By 1972 sufficient empirical evidence had accumulated for the
> > U.S. Surgeon General to comment that ...televised violence,
> indeed, does
> > have an adverse effect on certain members of our society. Other
> > scientific bodies have come to similar conclusions. Six
> > major professional societies in the United States -- the American
> > Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the
> > American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the
> American Medical
> > Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the
> American
> > Psychiatric Association - recently concluded that "the data point
> > overwhelmingly to a causal connection between media violence and
> > aggressive behavior in some children". In a report on page
> 2468 of this
> > issue, Johnson and colleagues present important evidence showing that
> > extensive TV viewing among adolescents and young adults is associated
> > with subsequent aggressive acts.
> > Despite the consensus among the experts, lay people do not seem
> > to be getting the message from the popular press that media violence
> > contributes to a more violent society. We recently demonstrated that
> > even as the scientific evidence linking media violence to
> aggression has
> > accumulated, news reports about the effects of media violence have
> > shifted to weaker statements, implying that there is little
> evidence for
> > such effects. This inaccurate reporting in the popular press
> may account
> > for continuing controversy long aster the debate should have been over,
> > much as the cigarette smoking/cancer controversy persisted long
> after the
> > scientific community know that smoking causes cancer.
>
> Ray Recchia
>
>
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