FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for April 10, 2023

by means of her sons’ conversation, Andy rests her case

Depends on the shows. Teletubbies certainly qualifies.

Probably some holier than thou, better than you, snobby, nothing-can-ever-hurt-me person with nothing better to do with their time.

I don’t deny that TV, movies, video games, and so on, can influence some people, but people were inventing new and ever more torturous ways to kill people long before TV was invented.

Whatever.

Stop watching Fox News

Oh, I dunno. We Boomers grew up on TV, and most of us turned out at least OK; it’s the kids who grew up on first-person-shooter video games who are shooting up schools.

There is a lot of violence in cartoons in Japan and if a character dies, he stays dead. No Wyle E. Coyote resurrections. I’m talking to you South Park fans.

Japan isn’t noted as a violent culture.

Any study that wants to link TV violence to real violence needs to include Japan in their study.

Of course, the control experiment where people are excluded from all violence on TV would be difficult to conduct. It would essentially involve total abstinence from TV, especially the news.

This sounds like the drivel that came out of Jack Thompson’s mouth back in the early 2000’s and his teaming up with Hillary Clinton against the video game industry. Best thing that ever happened was when he was disbarred!

“I just want to shoot the idiots who think this stuff affects me.” —Calvin

Just a reminder that before the Internet, there were claims that TV made kids violent. Before that it was movies and even radio.

Genghis Khan, who was responsible for the deaths of as many as 40 million people, can only shrug.

I’d like to see their control, an hour of TV is such a paltry part of a typical person’s day it would be lost in statistical noise. They were probably just picking up a general rise in violent behavior and claiming there was a connection to TV