bulldoodoo. When I was a kid we played with toy guns and played war. We killed each other. We watched violent cartoons, westerns where people were killed every few minutes. You know what, kids killed themselves and others then too. It just din't get shown on the news 24/7. I had two boys that went to school with me kill themselves before they were 16 within a mile of my house. There were kids that were thieves, kids that did drugs and kids that ended up being in prison as adults. We simply didn't have the media coverage.
It is like murders. Murder are lower now then in the 1970s. Kidnappings are less now, rape is less now. But, you hear it on the news like it happens everywhere constantly. People talk about Chicago. Look at their murders now v the 1970s. There were hundreds more every year back then. New York, same thing.
the 24-hr news cycle is, in my personal opinion, one of the worst things to happen to society, as a whole. Every major network has 24hr channels devoted 100% to reporting "news".....problem is, there just isn't that much need-to-know info all day, every day, so they have to dig up chit to report, which leads to exactly what you mentioned.
