VIOLENT VIEWS
“A New York ex-con who was charged last year with slaying six women said he killed for the first time after renting a videotape of “RoboCop,” a violent thriller. True or not, there’s more televised violence than ever before, according to a study in next week’s TV Guide. During a random day -April 2, 1992 – in one city – Washington D.C., researchers counted 1,846 acts of TV violence. Children’s cartoons are the most violent, the survey found, followed by movies, toy commercials and music videos. Serious acts (murder, assault) were more frequent than lesser types of mayhem. Overall, 20 percent of the violent acts involved guns.” Adapted from Newsweek 8/17/92
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