In two postings last week, I discussed the violence in three incidents involving children, including one in which a six year old killed his 90 year old caretaker with a shot to the back of her head as she watched TV.
The incidents have brought back up questions about violence on television, and whether it and violent movies cause violent acts by young people...or adults for that matter.
A firm operated by three medical professionals who advise the media about mental health issues in series has issued an opinion piece by them that was in the NY Times on Friday.
They conclude:
Even if violent media are conclusively found to cause real-life violence, we as a society may still decide that we are not willing to regulate violent content. That’s our right. But before we make that decision, we should rely on evidence, not instinct.
The good doctors, or course, make their money from the very industry they are questioning, so I suppose it would be too much to expect them to reach a damning conclusion.
So do I. So I'll leave the concluding up to you.
[PLUS: It's never to late to prove you were right about a story, even though a jury convicted you of libel. The British Sunday Times has gotten at least some of the money back that it paid to Lance Armstrong when he sued the paper over allegations of doping...allegations that it later turned out were true after all.]
[AND: a quote of the week from al.com:
‘Well, golly, they’re going to give it away anyway, dude! Get with it!...I mean, if we don’t take it, California or New York sure as hell will take it and all we did was create 300,000 people who will show up at the hospital that you get to pay for and I get to pay for.”David Bronner telling a Real Estate business group to convince Governor Bentley to join other GOP Governors who have agreed to expand Medicaid, even though they were 100% against Obamacare.]
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of TimLennox.com]
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