{"id":628,"date":"2007-04-18T14:11:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T14:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=62"},"modified":"2007-04-18T14:11:25","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T14:11:25","slug":"41807","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"4\/18\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the Virginia Tech shootings, the Nichols Mines Amish girls shootings, the Columbine shootings&#8230; \u00a0 It wouldn&#8217;t take a professor of Social Psychology to figure this out. \u00a0 We are awash in media\/entertainment violence. \u00a0 It influences our pysches. \u00a0 If someone tips from, say, an emotional problem &#8212; \u00a0they are now (in the year 2007) more apt to act out some of the violent imagery they&#8217;ve been watching. \u00a0 And here&#8217;s the rub: \u00a0 We are all responsible. \u00a0 Each time we watch a violent television show or movie, we are making a consumer choice. \u00a0 Those consumer choices translate to quantifiable viewing figures. \u00a0 \u00a0Companies then weigh these figures and spend big money with the shows that get the most viewership. \u00a0 In other words, <em>we are subsidizing \u00a0a violent culture!<\/em> \u00a0 Yet we won&#8217;t connect the dots on this thing, because we&#8217;re too addicted \u00a0to watching the violence at this point. \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Note:<\/strong> Those consumer viewing choices also \u00a0translate into: \u00a0morally quantifiable figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Virginia Tech shootings, the Nichols Mines Amish girls shootings, the Columbine shootings&#8230; \u00a0 It wouldn&#8217;t take a professor of Social Psychology to figure this out. \u00a0 We are awash in media\/entertainment violence. \u00a0 It influences our pysches. \u00a0 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=628\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}