Written By:Charles Radin, Globe Staff
Black clergy in Boston have launched a national effort to alert parents that a pornographic Internet website is using the names of civil rights leaders to draw people to scenes of sexual perversity.
The Web addresses, which contain the names of Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson, lead to a site offering graphic photos of heterosexual and homosexual copulation, oral sex, and bondage.
Porn peddlers also are using variations of the Web addresses of children's sites and church sites to draw young people in.
Written By: Jean Tepperman
Does media violence promote violent behavior?
"Since 1955, about 1,000 studies, reports, and commentaries concerning the impact of television violence have been published. The accumulated research clearly demonstrates a correlation between viewing violence and aggressive behavior."
Source: Charlotte E. Grayson Mathis, MD
Watching violent television programs or video games may affect children's minds even if they don't have a history of aggressive behavior, a new study shows.
Researchers found nonaggressive children who had been exposed to high levels of media violence had similar patterns of activity in an area of the brain linked to self-control and attention as aggressive children who had been diagnosed with disruptive behavior disorder.
Source: WebMD Health News
How many times have you walked into a room just in time to hear an underage TV character make a comment about drinking beer? How many times have you changed the channel when a character joked about “smoking a joint” or having a “one-night stand”? Television, music, and advertisements flood children with messages that may go against what that they have heard at home and school. Some messages teach kids that alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs are dangerous; other messages make drugs and alcohol look cool.
Written By: Charlotte E. Grayson Mathis, MD
Watching violent television programs or video games may affect children's minds even if they don't have a history of aggressive behavior, a new study shows.
Researchers found nonaggressive children who had been exposed to high levels of media violence had similar patterns of activity in an area of the brain linked to self-control and attention as aggressive children who had been diagnosed with disruptive behavior disorder.
SOURCE: http://www.healthyminds.org/mediaviolence.cfm
The debate is over. Over the last three decades, the one overriding finding in research on the mass media is that exposure to media portrayals of violence increases aggressive behavior in children.
The National Institute of Mental Health has reported that "In magnitude, exposure to television violence is as strongly correlated with aggressive behavior as any other behavioral variable that has been measured."
So a few months ago I was watching Oprah. Yes I'm almost 52, I'm a white male and I do watch Oprah. Any way she had this guy on. I had never heard of him before but he had some kind of cancer and he was very interesting because he really had a good attitude for what he was dealing with. It was kind of inspiring to see a guy that was going to die and had so many things to say and seemed to really be using what time he had left to go forward with life. Well last friday night there's that guy on the news and they said that Randy Pausch had lost his battle with cancer earlier in the day.
Last year, thousands of Australians took part in the annual “Keep Australia Beautiful” campaign. Schools, companies, charities, celebrities all get involved and get to work cleaning up our great Australian landscape with their bare hands. It’s dirty work, but it has to be done. We get tongs, and garbage bags… we don our rubber gloves and we put some elbow grease into it.
Last year over 800 tonnes of rubbish was collected and disposed of!