Before video games, people blamed television and movies. Before that, it was comic books, as this CNN article describes:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/4owfbz
Before that, it was “little big books” and pool, I guess. I don’t know what it was before that – maybe penny dreadfuls, whiskey and poker?
There’s a new book for parents out, called _Grand Theft Childhood_, that sounds like it takes a sensible approach (unlike most books on the subject). I suspect the writer of this post would agree with the authors.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/62przq
Spot on article. It’s not about the thing, it’s about politicians breeding fear of whatever the thing is so they can wring more $$$ from their constituents and prove they are doing something to combat this menace.
