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The media makes us do it: Dines and the pornography debate : Comments

By Jennifer Wilson, published 31/5/2011

Blaming the media for society’s ills has been dismissed by media academics. Gail Dines seems to ignore the research.

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Hi Jenniffer, I’m Baaaack. Got chucked off again for abusing some David Hicks kiss- ass.

The evidence that violent media has a causal link to real life violence is overwhelming. There were to the year 1997, there were extant “over 2000" scientific reports definitely proving that link. One of the scientific papers was submitted by the US American Medical Association, the same organization which led the fight against the tobacco companies.

The two most significant reports are the two US Surgeon General’s reports into the effects of media violence on society. In one report, you will find the historic “Joint Statement” made by the six leading medical, psychological and psychiatric institutions in the USA, who testified before the US Congress that the link between violent media and real life violence was overwhelming. Their individual reports used expressions like “the scientific debate is over”, “there is absolutely no doubt…..” and “the link between media violence and real life violence has been proven by science, over and over again.”

The comparisons between the tobacco industry, and the media, is obvious. Both of these fabulously wealthy industries knew all along that their products were harming their own consumers, but both denied that this was so. Both industries were vice industries targeting children, the intellectually challenged, and the immature. It was only government intervention which prevents the media today from advertising cigarettes, but the media is still helpful of its tobacco company corporate cronies by using “incidental” smoking scenes in movies to boost sales.

The difference between the two industries, is that one has been exposed, but the other has escaped public scrutiny. This is because the very same people who can be relied upon to man the barricades against every corporate malfeasance suddenly developed acute myopia when it came to attacking the media. Too many trendy lefties were employed by the media and any attack upon the media was seen as an attack upon their own self interest.
Posted by LEGO, Monday, 13 June 2011 8:21:54 AM
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In the seventies, the stunts of professional stunt motorcyclists like “Evel Kneval” were shown on TV. Hospital Emergency Room staff coined the expression “Evel Kneval Sydrome” to describe the smashed bodies of adolescent boys who had been seriously injured imitating the stunts that they saw on TV. The staff were also treating children for seriously burned faces who imitated the fire eating stunts of the rock band KISS.

After the release of the cartoon “TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES”, teachers of young children all over the world were horrified to see little kids karate kicking each other all over school playgrounds. “The Three Stooges” was banned from TV in NSW because of the number of children being admitted to hospitals with damages eyeballs who were imitating the “eye poking” slapstick antics of The Stooges.”

In 1973, a movie called DOOMESDAY FLIGHT was released which showed a novel way to extort money from airline companies. Within weeks of its release, extortion demands using the same movie methodology were made against QANTAS, Pan Am, TWA, NorthWest, and Eastern Airlines. Five years later the movie was re-released and another wave of extortion demands followed. This movie is now no longer shown as it is just too dangerous.

In California, two adolescent boys were convicted of murdering an elderly hobo by beating and stabbing him to death. Before he died, one of the boys poured a full container of salt on the man’s wounds. When asked by investigators why he had done that, the he replied “I dunno, I just seen it done on TV.”

In Lebanon, a hanging of two convicted murderers was seen shown live on TV. Within days, two Lebanese school kids were "hanged by their playmates at school in separate incidents, and their lives were only saved when alert teachers intervened.
Posted by LEGO, Monday, 13 June 2011 8:41:31 AM
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You are very disappointing Wilson. I read your other article on gendered baby clothes and thought here is a female academic who actually has something to say.Most female academics are too smug with their good fortune at getting a man's life to bother with political discourse. Then I read this rehashed tripe pretending to be a rebuttal of Dr Dines research. And you Wilson, a woman who claims to have been a clinician in the child abuse sector. That was a waste of twenty years, you clearly learnt nothing about why men prey on children, grooming them and then raping them and then normalising the situation. Why don t these men have sex with adult women? They have a sexual distress thats why. Just like millions of men all over the world now thanks to internet porn and a culture, as you put it in the other article ,of predetermining a female humans life even before she draws breath. The porn culture is fouling everything just like the slave culture centuries ago. Now males ( they will never become men now) are so fuzzied of brain they cant even be present while their wife is giving birth because they think it is disgusting. Everything is genitals.Unless we stop this plague where will civilisation end up?
Posted by Hestia, Friday, 24 June 2011 11:39:24 AM
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