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Article: Why violent video games may be worse than other media violence
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- Michigan Chronicle
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- October 11, 2005
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Worthy, Kym
Michigan Chronicle
10-11-2005
(Second of a three-part series)
A new phenomenon: 'killographic' video games
Welcome to the high-tech front line of a battle to save the minds -- and,
ultimately, lives -- of young people. This is not the on-again, off-again
debate on television violence, bloody horror movies or even hip-hop lyrics,
though those genres are potent collaborators in the infusion of violence
into the culture. For a number of reasons, the violent video game
represents a different species altogether, a looming mutation that is what
the traditional menace of media violence might look like after a steady
regimen of steroids.
The phenomenon of extremely violent video games is a ...