Well, when I was writing originally I was trying to avoid the implication of a direct and simple cause-and-effect (because I always say if a kid shoots up a school because of a video game/song/movie that that kid could have been triggered by anything, i.e., the root causes of the breakdown came before), but clearly I didn't articulate that properly, so I just took it out, since it was not really my point anyway.
On that point, though, I guess I do think that things in the media can reinforce attitudes, or be used by others to reinforce them, or make things that are problems seem like they're not problems or vice versa. It bothers me when people say content doesn't matter. And I dunno, maybe content doesn't matter, but I almost don't want to believe that to be the case.
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Date: 2010-05-28 07:17 am (UTC)On that point, though, I guess I do think that things in the media can reinforce attitudes, or be used by others to reinforce them, or make things that are problems seem like they're not problems or vice versa. It bothers me when people say content doesn't matter. And I dunno, maybe content doesn't matter, but I almost don't want to believe that to be the case.