Violence, Video Games And Donahue

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday August 20, 2002 @10:36AM from the next-you'll-say-jerry-springer-isn't-real dept.

nsda's deviant writes: "Salon is running an article written by Henry Jenkins, the director of MIT's new comparative media studies program. His article on Salon details blow-by-blow the shrewd tactics of cable TV's nightly debate programs like O'Reilly, Connie Chung, Cross Fire and of course the return of Donnahue. It also sheds lights on mass media's promotion of violence as ratings excitment and actively publicizing violence (ala Grand Theft Auto 3) for more ratings / controversy. The debate over video game violence has been a frequent topic on /. but this gives it quite a different twist. My favorite quote is 'those GTA3 clips seemed a whole lot more bloody when he (Donahue) was watching them before the show.'"

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Chung? Crossfire? O'Reilly? by John+Jorsett · 2002-08-20 12:22 · Score: 1, Troll

Since the piece is talking about the author's experience on the Donohue show, the headline attributing the same tactics to other shows "assumes facts not in evidence," as a lawyer would say.
Re:Three points to push home by achurch · 2002-08-20 18:57 · Score: 1, Troll

1. Juvenile violence is at a 30-year low.
While I'm not debating your overall argument, what's your evidence for this particular point? Incidents like Columbine give people (including me) a pretty strong impression that juvenile violence is on the increase--maybe in numbers, maybe in level, but things like that sure didn't happen 10 years ago when I was in school.