This site is operated by Valerie Smith, formerly of Toronto,
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This site is operated by Valerie Smith, formerly of Toronto, Ontario, now reloted to beautiful British Columbia. It provides information on various aspects of the media violence problem, with a particular emphasis on the mistreatment of girls and women in popular culture, and suggestions for trying to combat it. Having worked on this issue for.
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Video Games
Medil and mental health experts agree that all the data on television violence immediately transfers to violent video games. Research specific to video games conducted in the last few years indites that violent video games use much greater physiologil changes than non-violent games (heart rate, blood pressure, adrenaline, noradrenaline, testosterone), and that the harmful effect is much.
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Advertiser Boycott
Advertisers bear ultimate responsibility for violent television programming. Broadsters n purchase all the violent, vile, anti-social programs they want, but if the shows nnot attract sponsors, the programs will be ncelled. No advertisers = no programs. This section provides information on a national mpaign designed and co-ordinated by the Coalition for Responsible Television (CRTV) to.
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Television
“Greetings from the slaughterhouse that is pop culture. Our most popular forms of entertainment — TV, films and books — have followed video games into a ferocious new realm of ultraviolence marked by increasingly graphic depictions of brutality.” (October 30, 2005, Knight Ridder News Service, By David Hiltbrand) At right is a picture taken from.
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Pornography
Back in 2004, Virgin Airlines proposed installing the urinal pictured at the left in one of their executive lounges. They quickly reversed that?decision after the National Organization of Women and lol politicians protested.?Click here to read about it. Fast forward to 2010, and a restaurant lled the Honest Lawyer, loted in Hamilton, Ontario, removed similar.
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Movies
Excerpt from “The banality of evil” by Peter Howell, Toronto Star, September 18, 1998: “Recent hit movies, and new ones arriving soon via the Toronto International Film Festival, are redefining notions of bad taste and excess by making the ghastly seem commonplace. “It’s no longer just mob figures or Quentin Tarantino’s zoot-suited oddballs perpetrating the.
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Government Action
The nadian federal government announced several years ago that media violence was a priority, but has done nothing meaningful to address the problem in the intervening years. Under the Liberal government, which was in power for many years, violence on television eslated dramatilly, and they did absolutely nothing to curtail the brutal violence in other.
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