Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id EAA12593 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sun, 14 Apr 2002 04:44:43 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [209.240.222.132] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: RE: media violence report in Science Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 23:38:36 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F30Edyt3cew8k69RKLp00020177@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Apr 2002 03:38:37.0246 (UTC) FILETIME=[DC6DA5E0:01C1E365] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: RE: media violence report in Science
>Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:48:52 -0400
>
>Thanks for this posting, Ray.
>
>It makes me wonder what impact living amidst inescapable real daily
>violence
>has on Palestinians and Israelis. Thoughts, anyone?
>
I'd like to be able to compare news reports on the recent events given by
Israeli versus Arab sources. I've been fairly recently introduced to a
newtwork available on my satellite TV service called Worldlink TV. They have
a program called Mosaic which highlights news reports from Arab sources in
Syria, Iran, Egypt and London among others. It's a fresh breath of air
(though obviously Arab biased) from what I typically see on CNN, MSNBC and
FOXNews. Worldlink has taken it upon themselves, it appears, to offer a
different perspective.
Anyway, the images aren't sanitized and it seems there's more depth accorded
to the Palestinian POV.
Now, relating to this thread, would it be better to candy-coat the news and
present to world with rose-colored lenses or to reflect conflicts as they
are. Would showing violent images of the clash adversely impact children or
perhaps clue them in on the harsh realities of the world and better prepare
them for the future where conflicts and violence are still going to be a
fact of life?
>
>Lawrence
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> > Of Ray Recchia
> > Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 3:19 AM
> > To: Memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> > Subject: media violence report in Science
> >
> >
> > 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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