Does violence on television cause aggressive behaviour?
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Joshua Randell Paramecium 23/11/04 Does violence on television cause aggressive behaviour? An 18-year-old boy locks himself in his room, mesmerized for hours by the corpse-filled video game Doom, whilst Marilyn Manson screams obscenities from the stereo. Shelved nearby are a video collection, including the graphically violent film Natural Born Killers, and a diary, replicating the unrestrained expressions of hate and death, published on the boy's personal website. Should this boy's media preference be cause for alarm? The question is not new, but the massacre of 12 students and a teacher by fellow students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in 1999 has added urgency to the search for answers. The Colorado teenagers reportedly immersed themselves in the same media described above, even producing and starring in their own murderous video before gunning down their classmates, and apparently taking their own lives. We live in a world of violence -- Kosovo, Sierra...

