{"id":679,"date":"2005-07-29T11:53:26","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T16:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/29\/kids-video-games-and-violence\/"},"modified":"2005-07-29T11:53:26","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T16:53:26","slug":"kids-video-games-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/29\/kids-video-games-and-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids, Video Games and Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gr.bolt.com\/articles\/violence\/violence.htm\">Games Revolution<\/a> has an article up by <a href=\"mailto:duke@game-revolution.com\">Duke Ferris<\/a> in regards to the recent up-surge in news items and proposed legislation to fight the so-called epidemic of youth violence in America being caused by violent video games.<\/p>\n<p>The core point of the article, however, is: <em>&#8220;There is no epidemic of youth violence in America.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite the increasing number of hyped news articles and opinion pieces over the &#8220;worth&#8221; of video games that contain violence, the statistics coming in from the federal government is that violence, and crime in general, is down among young people.  In fact, it&#8217;s at it&#8217;s lowest point in twenty years, as many independent studies have shown.<\/p>\n<p>Something to keep in mind the next time you see a breathless television journalist keeping their ratings high by interviewing yet another politician who talks long and hard about how they&#8217;re going to &#8220;protect the children&#8221; with proposed laws that never make it out of congressional sub-committees, all while the hard decisions are conveniently never made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Games Revolution has an article up by Duke Ferris in regards to the recent up-surge in news items and proposed legislation to fight the so-called epidemic of youth violence in America being caused by violent video games. The core point of the article, however, is: &#8220;There is no epidemic of youth violence in America.&#8221; Despite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/29\/kids-video-games-and-violence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kids, Video Games and Violence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}