Kaiser Foundation Shows Little Video Game Violence Concern

Thanks to EvilAvatar for the heads up about a new Kaiser Foundation study showing that parents are simply not worried about video game violence. "Overall parents are more concerned about inappropriate content on TV than in other media: 34% say TV concerns them most, compared to 16% who say the Internet, 10% movies, 7% music, and 5% video games."

Comments

Re:More than that

[realdpk]

Nobody has to have respect for the Christian faith. I have to tolerate that other people believe in it, but that's as far as I have to go in our society.

I may actually start respecting Christians if they can manage to keep their noses out of other people's business and out of public government. I don't know if they can do that, though -- history (modern and "ancient") indicates that they can not.

You don't subtract bad exposure, you add good.

[vhold]

The kids I knew who were banned from watching hardly any TV were all relatively more intelligent then their peers, but also were lacking socially quite badly.

The kids I knew who were not banned from watching TV, but had hardly watched it because they had constructive hobbies and parents that supported that, were relatively more intelligent then their peers but also had friends.

Re:You don't subtract bad exposure, you add good.

[DarkAdonis]

My parents never restricted me from watching TV when I was growing up. Today, I probably "watch" about 3hrs of TV per week, and that's only because I'd be in the living room while my roommate watches TV. The interesting thing, is that my roommate's parents restricted her from watching TV when she was growing up, but today, she watches alot of TV. This is also true of people I've met who had similar restrictions or people who did not have cable TV when they were young. My point is that I haven't seen that placing these kind of no-TV restrictions actually work. I find that a person who watches alot of TV are not necessarily TV junkies and given an alternative activity that is interesting to that person, would rather engage in that activity. I'm no parent, but I think if you allow your kid the opportunity to explore other activities, the kid will limit his own TV watching.

Re:This happens every couple years...

[MMaestro]

Don't forget about other medias. After the broadcasting of War of the Worlds, radio got slammed and blaimed for causing a panic despite repeated notices of the broadcast being fictional. Then television media got turned down in the 80's and 90's after news reporters started running ahead of military personnel, getting themselves shot at, and then complaining about not being protected. Returned to the radio, again we see the radio being slammed with censorship against critics who protest against the government's policies. All this, newspaper censorship, more censorship against radio in the past, recent censorship of the internet, and a bag of chips to munch on while we wait and see some more censorship in the future.