Stephen King's column in this week's Entertainment Weekly is especially relevant to the class discussion in two weeks fears and concerns about youth and media. First, here's the column:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20188502,00.html
The column is all about legislation banning youth from purchasing certain videogames in Massachusetts. Although Stephen King explains House Bill 1423 pretty completely and rather fairly, here is a copy of the bill:
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/185/ht01pdf/ht01423.pdf
I tend to agree with King's analysis of the bill. I especially agree with him when he takes exception to the portion of the bill that says certain video games and other media have no literary, artistic or social merit. So now politicians are literary scholars and art critics as well as law makers. Man, they know everything!
Also, I find it funny when King says teens can go see Hostel 2 but not play the less violent Grand Theft Auto. It seems like a more apt analogy would be a teen can go into a book store and buy a Stephen King book but can't buy the less violent GTA.
If nothing else, I think this legislation and article in Entainment Weekly demostrate that the issues we are discussing in class do have real world effects that reach across the media world, across the the political world, and into the lives of teenagers and all citizens.
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