I liked this article because it shows the dark side of new media. Youtube is a huge staple in high school and college-aged students (and a definite fixture in other age demographics) that demonstrates a form of self-expressionism in entertainment. With all of the positive forms of entertainment, executions, murders, and deadly accidents are commonly frequented in certain circles. (From a personal observation of an ex roommate's boyfriend and his friends). It also reflects how shock-value has to increase to new levels of violence in order to make people uncomfortable.
History of the FBI vietnam war rra: 1960's - 1970's. Retrieved November 5, 2008, from Federal Bureau of Investigation Web site: http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/history/vietnam.htm
This site give the history of violence according to the FBI. An interesting viewpoint that lists Vietnam as the underlying reason of violence in the 1960s. There was an increase in urban crime and propensity for some groups to resort to using violence in challenging the "establisment."
Kettl, P. (1994, June 1). Look to television's role in youth violence. The New York Times, Retrieved November 17, 2008, from https://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy.hofstra.edu/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T5194497869&format=GNBFI&sort=BOOLEAN&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T5194497873&cisb=22_T5194497872&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=6742&docNo=9
This editorial piece written by an associate professor of Psychiatry at Penn State states that the average American child finishes high school he or she has witnessed 18,000 entertaining television murders, presented without clear vision, guilt or remorse. He also states that homicides have doubled since the onset of television; that areas of the country that received television first had earlier rises in homicides, and also that whites had earlier rises in homicide rates than African-Americans, corresponding to the earlier presence of television in white households.
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