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Article: Violent Fantasy: It's not the Hollywood Gore that's the problem.(moral relativism at heart of problems with mass media)
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- National Review
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- October 23, 2000
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Like presidential elections and the Olympics, political denunciations of Hollywood violence have become a bedrock quadrennial American tradition. At least every four years-sometimes more often, if there's a school shooting-movie-industry lobbyist Jack Valenti simultaneously sucks up to politicians and lectures them about the First Amendment. Liberal activists who denounce Joe Camel as a pied piper of social coercion swear that screen idols have no influence on human behavior. Television executives who make billions of dollars off the persuasive power of 30-second commercials declare that the 26- and 54-minute programs those ads punctuate have no net impact on their ...
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