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Media Madness: Do movies and video games cause aggression?


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This week, Erin explores the impact of the big bad media. Do romance novels corrupt the morals of good, innocent people? Are 11-year-old Grand Theft Auto addicts likely to get behind the wheels of their parents’ Oldsmobiles? Tune-in for a complicated journey from comic books to pornography to find out how the media does - or does not - influence our behaviour. Then, Kathleen discusses a pretty questionable video game and a tragedy that proceeded its release. Natalie looks at movie-inspired crimes, and the result of a trial that attempted to hold movie directors accountable for the messages in their movies.
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