-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/26/grossman.html <A HREF="http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/26/grossman.html">Adbusters: David Grossman finally get his due </A> ----- DAVID GROSSMAN FINALLY GET HIS DUE DAVE GROSSMAN, the Arkansas psychologist and former US army colonel profiled in "Headrush" [Adbusters, Spring 1999] has sometimes sounded like a broken record proselytizing on the harm violent pop-culture imagery � particularly shoot-'em-up video games � can do. Finally, he has been vindicated. Too bad it took 14 dead kids to make it happen. The recent massacre in Littleton, Colorado, so perfectly fit the template Grossman warns of � right down to the perpetrators' obsession with morbid video games (the killers rehearsed their crime in a simulated Littleton before carrying it out) � that Grossman seemed almost to have forecasted it. A huge question mark hung over America; here, suddenly, was a guy with some answers. Within a week Grossman had become a minor celebrity in his own right. President Clinton mentioned him in his Saturday radio address to the nation. The next day, he appeared on 60 Minutes, playing Doom with Ed Bradley, blowing limbs off his targets and explaining how efficiently the game was training him to kill. "People watched that," Grossman says, "and the mind of a nation just went 'click." Grossman guested on Larry King Live, The Today Show, Meet the Press. Networks dispatched crews to his Jonesboro home. On May 2, he testified before a senate subcommittee on youth violence. It has been a strange turnabout in the life of a man who has heretofore been shut out of network TV (because, he maintains, his anti-TV-violence message isn't exactly advertiser-friendly). In the end, the message grew too potent for the medium to resist. What's next for Grossman, and his crusade? Much depends on what happens in Peducah, Kentucky, where a $130 million dollar class action suit against the video game industry is scheduled to go to trial next year. "Keep your eye on Peducah," says Grossman. "This is the Lexington and Concord of the culture war. This is the shot heard around the world. This is going to be the first step in the revolution that's going to throw off the oppression of violence and the tyranny of the media moguls. I really believe it. Once an idea gets loose, you can't rein it in." - Bruce Grierson ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
