well because you don't have to go to india you have to look at the poor people in united states i mean poor people the united states spend upwards of seventy percent of their of their income on basic necessities i mean i'm talking about housing food and clothing. you know if you're spending seventy percent of your income on housing food and clothing and there is a serious rise in prices you know it's going to hit you and it's going to hurt you a lot you know i wrote a paper about this that i think i estimated that he read two of the effects of q.e. two in terms of commodity inflation as it would reach to agriculture products would affect roughly eighty percent of the u.s. population so you don't have to go looking for poor people in india to see how this beggar thy neighbor policy is going to affect people you just have to go to the middle classes and lower middle classes of the united states to see how it's going to. reconcile larry thanks so much for being on the kaiser report it's a pleasure being on thank you for having me all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with may max kaiser and stacey everett i think my gas comes i will there out if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser

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for. the us to go ahead companies continue to war. is losing some of the british. rock bottom interest rates. the number of over sixty five's withdrawing. six fold. more and more explicit we look at how movies and video games are pushing boundaries

but also straining people psychology to the limit the program. ever since hollywood had child abuse in a late night and twenty's debate has raged about the impact of violent media on our minds and our behavior from alarm about violence in movies in the one nine hundred thirty s. to concerns about the acceleration of violent content across virtually the entire media landscape today hundreds of studies and countless congressional hearings have

looked at the issue of media files and always seem to end up at the same place as anyone disagree with that conclusion that violence in films for updates violent conduct on behalf of the children. a debate about whether those exposed to media violence are prone to imitate and whether media is to blame for society's skills but for all the endless debate a basic question remains. is the issue really about whether we imitate what we see and if that's the case why do the vast majority of us watch t.v. and never commit a violent act. this film looks at the work of a man who took a more complicated look at the issue of media violence as a. matter of very great. society in wages many people are really angry and. they're going to get it.

george herbert exposure to violence came early and on an epic scale first when as a young man he fled to the united states from his native hungary to escape fascism . then a short time later when he enlisted in the us army to fight in world war two. going on to earn the bronze star for bravery as a member of the office of strategic services for parachuting into enemy territory under heavy fire in one of the war's bloodiest battles. with his war experience behind him group who would spend the rest of his life

trying to understand violence specifically how the portrayal of violence through images and stories affected our consciousness and behavior in the real world he rose to prominence as one of the world's foremost media scholars serving as dean of the annenberg school for communication at the university of pennsylvania for twenty five years and directing one of the most important and influential research efforts ever undertaken to understand the effects of television he called it the cultural indicators research project since it began in the late one nine hundred sixty s. the cultural indicators project has systematically tracked media violence and measured its impact on the perceptions and attitudes of viewers. and what gardner and his colleagues found was that exposure to media violence seemed to have more complicated effects than simply causing people to act violently effects rooted not only in the quantity of violence in the media but also in its quality in how it was

portrayed in the stories these simulations of violence tell about our relationships to the world and others. today a handful of global conglomerates all in one controlled are telling the all the stories in the world. they have global marketing formulas that are imposed on the creative people in hollywood and i'm in touch with them and they hated it don't talk to me about censorship from washington i never heard about it i get censorship every day i'm told put in more action cut out complicated solutions apply this formula because your travels well in the global market these are formulas that need no translation and essentially image driven and speak action in any language and of course the leading element of that formula is while and.

this is that historically unprecedented tidal wave of images of violence in every home often with expertly choreographed brutality such as the world has never seen. this is an extension the best for adults and the introduction into every home. a relentless for a vase of the. exposure to violence and brutality many times a day children dow see about eight thousand murders by the end of elementary school . and about two hundred thousand violent acts by the age of eighteen.

from movies to television shows to video games to children's programmes to twenty four hour news channels aggression is now team every day formulaic a staple industrial ingredient. and in fact it is the routine nature of this violence that makes it so dangerous and so different from the past this is not the same as traditional story because there was a lot of from shakespeare. there was while unseen fairy tales and that in effect if you think about it while it is the digital bit artistic and journalistic future it is even necessary to shoulder tragedy and pay and advantage that these obsessions with violence solutions to human conflict in creating lives

and in communities and in society. but most of the violence that we see is what i call happy while. the worry is. this guy's going to be watching his own good spill it has to be highly entertaining violence just means that they're really just there with their often glamorous just looking but that's your litter and they always lead to a happy ending. everybody wants come. true recorded with humor to be sure i mean to think that god came down from heaven and stopped. at their. moment and of. what you were makes to pill easier to swallow.

humor is an excellent communication device because the pill is the pillow for how or who can get away with what against whom. so from goodness perspective what matters most about media violence is not simply the violent acts on the road but the meaning of all this violence and it's here on this point that governor breaks with an entire tradition. is a document signed by six of the major public health organizations saying that the violence in the entertainment a level that we've been tamed today is causing increased aggressive behavior among some children they. effect on television and indeed most of the media questions and discussion about effects of television can be exemplified by the notion that people

ask about violence they say does it create more violence there's something else that the experts we talked to say about this increase in teen violence and crime they say it may be caused by the messages that are being sent to the teens the effect is supposed to be an imitation and a kind of a monkey see monkey do effect in indianapolis monday off four year old told police he shot his sister in the head because he saw someone do it on the t.v. when you see it was she going to conduct violence are you going to commit violence does anyone disagree with their conclusion that your violence in films. violent conduct on behalf of the children but this is really trivial the contribution of television violence into the actual committing of violence is practically negligible and nobody has been able to demonstrate that it is a significant contributor compared to bow or to compare to subcultures in which while it's a very frequent compared to many other factors that really the root cause of the

well. was. the oversimplified view that media violence causes violent behavior has troops in the earliest media research which grew out of fears about the sensational and violent content of hollywood's first talking motion pictures and what this violence was doing to the minds of kids who are now flocking to movie houses the best known of these research efforts the pain fun studies of nine hundred twenty nine i think thirty two seemed to find that crime and violence in films had a powerful direct and lasting effect on children sowing the seeds for future nervous disorders. and even though this research raised interesting questions in the infancy of media research it missed the bigger picture by focusing on the immediate and short term emotional reactions of audiences exposed to particular

instances of violence. and perhaps the most influential example of this view that mass media messages have a direct and immediate effect on audiences would come just a few years later. brought up being the same and it's really a good statement for them orson welles that there are many. more of the world by the west that. we know not all that in the early years but it bends through. it's being watched closely by intelligence is great of a man on october thirtieth one thousand nine hundred thirty eight. orson welles presented the h.g. well science fiction classic with more of the rules to a national audience and proceeded to scare the wits out of a good many of his listeners with this victorian tale of alien invasion. and out of that black holes. here they are i play like they are

a herd of every. sad that. it was compelling fiction but it sounded like an actual news report and there were reports of widespread panic that aliens had actually invaded the planet. reinforced fears that had been building for years about the power of mass media to exercise a direct and immediate effect audiences and audience behaviors. media. media. it didn't matter that this apparently immediate and profound effect

to be nowhere near as originally reported. that the sensationalized press reports deflected attention away from the fact that the vast majority of people who heard the wells broadcast knew it was fiction and didn't panic at all. the idea that media content seemed capable of exerting some kind of direct and immediate mass mind control passive public had taken hold in the popular imagination. in this view which called the magic bullet theory the assumption is that media messages act. like shots from a gun. leaving our minds changed in their wake. a view of media violence as all powerful and viewers as essentially passive that

continues to shape debates about media violence to this day. but these cause and effect arguments were simply wrong when it came to making sense of media influence. more science fiction than science they were old approaches based on the outdated notion that people are passive and mass media works on them like some great mind control device like a stimulus applied to lab animals controlling what we think from the outside this way of doing things may have made things easier for social scientists allowing them to measure effect by examining and comparing our minds before and after we were exposed to media messages in campaigns. but in view the very idea of a before and after didn't make much sense in the media context for the simple reason as they used to say that with media there is no before we are born into

a mediated environment the question is how to measure the effects of a force that is present from the start a sea of images is media scholar marshall mcluhan like to say that has become so familiar to us that we're often as blind to its all encompassing presence as a fish is to water. like to fish in the water we don't know who discovered water but we know it wasn't any sort of medium a pervasive environment is almost beyond perception we have become so accustomed to . fish it doesn't know that it's swimming in water because it has never experienced anything else this leads us to the notion of cultivation cultivation is a stable system of messages and images that shape our conception of the world in the life. the question is how do you measure cultivation this is a research problem that we faced and they resolved it in the following way we give

service to large groups of. representative respondents these surveys have a series of questionnaires done about television not about media but these are questions about life question about security question about values question about attitudes for example we asked them what are your chances of encountering violence on an average weeknight is it one in a hundred or one in fifty s. would you be reluctant to go down the street in your own neighborhood at night yes or no. separate responses into heavy and light the worst. find that in almost every instance the heavier is exhibit a greater sense of insecurity. and be attributed to the great differing quincey of violence encountered on television their response patterns of heavy viewers to converge into what we call the

television mainstream so that it was heavy viewers of the usual differences among different social groups the differences of age of gender of income education begin to erode the heavy viewers for all practical purposes live in a manner world. they integrate and absorb a sense of danger or mistrust of meanness in the world. to

create. a very moment she was abducted. with murdering her brother in law. and. six people accused of organizing fights in a school for the mentally disabled. shooting a man in the head at a four year old's birthday party over the weekend. and this. is especially true. which is the primary news source for two thirds of a. sixty one percent of all lead stories. i have to do what i can.

to show these kinds of. securities explicitly with media culture. between television. and the level of fear of being victimized. in the world. to be a mugger the country. may be dangerous to me these. the. exposure to. the finding that if you watch a lot of t.v. you're likely to be more afraid of violence than those who watch less t.v.

may help explain why so many people seem to think violent crime is far worse it is a widespread misperception that started to be noticed a decade ago when crime rates began to drop here is the reality. actually dropped slightly in the latest figures released by the justice department nationwide murder was down five percent but the perception continues to dominate reality here that. fear that. place is safe anymore and when you're always on guard it's hard to. the reality and this classic example of the. continues today in fact since that a.b.c. news report. justice department figures show that violent crime has dropped in an additional forty three percent to a remarkable thirty year low and. four

point four percent decline but despite the steady drop polls have consistently shown that most americans believe just the opposite to be true three quarters of americans say there is more crime in the united states than there was a year ago gallup's annual crime poll shows it's the highest level since the early one nine hundred ninety s. the poll also finds fifty one percent of americans say there is more crime in their local area. year ago when we see reports like this is it any wonder that american seem more intent than ever on protecting themselves speaking at heading home check this out i'm a firearms instructor in nassau county florida last weekend we had eighteen people go through our courses to get concealed weapons carry licenses the number of people getting these licenses is astounding and everyone expresses a fear of being attacked when i go to jacksonville's concert hall downtown i go heavily armed because one of the neighborhoods west of there is the fourth

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