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Nurdbot
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That thar' sex should be what your looking out for.
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Nixorbo
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Does anyone else remember Elmira's "More Violets on TV" segemnt on the "Friday Afternoon Live" episode of Tiny Toons?
Because that's what I think of when I see this thread.
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Tweek
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I don't think there is too much, if I don't like a programme there are other channels for me to watch.
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Cube_166
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No. I'm head of a group petitioning for more violence on TV. Let us rise up and take the TV world by force, or something.
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Wonderbee31
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« Reply #13 on: 09-07-2003 09:19 »
« Last Edit on: 09-07-2003 09:19 »
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Isn't most of the 'too much violence' crowd always complaining, but never really doing anything, anyway? It seems to me that tv isn't much more violent now, than it was 20, or 30 years ago, maybe a little more graphic, but not much more. I mean, I watched Wild Wild West, back in the 60's, and there were at least two or three people dying per episode then, usually pretty gruesomely. I guess maybe part of this has rose up out of the PC attitude that has developed over the last 10-15 years or so.
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Rage Dump
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« Reply #16 on: 09-07-2003 09:48 »
« Last Edit on: 09-07-2003 09:48 »
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We're doing stuff like this in Yr12 media. Without boring you all with the details, we've been tought that no viewer is completly passive, and just takes the info in regardless of what it is. As soon as we started this topic our teacher gave us an example... He asked whether we thought TV and other media influenced peoples decisions, most of us said yes or sort of, he then asked a person at the front of the class to go outside, look for a knife just outsode the door, and thrust it into their chest. You know they didn't do it. Don't be a smart-ass Which i thought was a funny and effective way of telling us that people aren't effected my the media as much as we think, it is just the easiest to blame, which is why people do so. Do you think that there is to much violence on TV? No.
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Otis P Jivefunk
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I don't think there's too much violence on TV. Knowones making you watch it, but if you do watch, knowones making you do it.
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OC_James
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I think the kids who blamed GTA:VC were just using it as a scapegoat. If the game really inspired the kids ,which I really doubt, to do what they did, then I'm amazed they were intelligent enough to even use a PS2 controller. These kids are either stupid or irresponsible and they make the rest of hardcore gamers look bad. Mainstream society has no problem with "casual gamers" but hardcore gamers are often considered nerds, psychos, or losers. It's really pathetic how judgemental our society is. Plus, I read on GameSpy or some other video game website that the guns and ammo they used were purchased legally. I could go on a looooong rant about this but this Penny Arcade comic puts it perfectly: K-Mart: Saving Lives
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Nixorbo
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If anything, there needs to be more parenting in the house in front of the TV.
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DrThunder88
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Maybe in front of your TV. My dad went into a thirty minute fit of giggles when he was watching a Dateline story about when Botox goes wrong.
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TheMadCapper
Fluffy
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It bugs me when people expose their children to this stuff at young ages. Taking your 17 year old to R-films... fine. Taking your 9 year old to them... not fine.
Really, the stuff that gets put on tv will only affect kids if their parents are negligent.
When will people learn that children are not little adults, and they need to be raised attentively?
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kip
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I think there is too much violence when it comes to kids TV or TV that kids watch... during the day or what their parents deem suitable. Notice the more de-sensitised society has become to violence, the more it occurs everyday on the streets. Gang wars, muggings, fights etc... I do think that voilence in music and tv is partly responsible - such as the glorification of being a gangsta' or capping somebody with a 9mm.
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Coop
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I dont think we allow enough violence here in the states. Violence in the media(games, TV) don't attribute to crime if you ask me. Because other countries have worse and lower crime rates at the same time. We americans have just grown so used to blaming everyone else when we do bad things.
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Nixorbo
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People got hurt in A*Team?
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Jamesbondcja
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It seems today that all we see is violence in movies and sex on TV.....
Anyway I says more!
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