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...tidbit learned in the days after the shooting, the opportunistic pundits have played their hands to maximum advantage, trying to offer the most insightful explanation for the events in Colorado. When it was revealed that the killers listened to the music of Marilyn Manson and played the game Doom, the pundits argued that Goth rock music and graphic video games ought to be restricted because they insight violence. Psychologists have taken to the airwaves to talk about the effect of TV violence on youth...
Even President Clinton has gotten into the act, proposing new general restrictions on fertilizer purchases, after it was learned that the killers made homemade pipe bombs. Never mind the plentiful cases where Marilyn Manson, Doom and fertilizer have not been accessories to violence; generalizations and extrapolations from the particular circumstances in Littleton have become the order...
Again it was the final seconds of the period that spelled doom for the Crimson. With 12 seconds left in the first overtime period, Cornell scored a goal to put the Big Red ahead for the remainder of the match...
...site within hours of last week's shooting, preserving its contents for an FBI investigation. But copies were already circulating across cyberspace--along with a few sick hoaxes--and their contents made many folks eager to blame the Internet for this tragedy. Others pointed to violent video games, particularly Doom and Quake, Harris' favorites. In these seminal works, players wander through claustrophobic corridors in a terrifyingly real first-person perspective, blasting the guts out of their enemies with a blistering array of weaponry. "You can actually set the gore level on some of [these games]," notes Jeff Inman, a specialist...
...sophisticated the technology or how noble the cause. But since the Gulf War, TV audiences have been conditioned to expect military conflict to be a "surgical" process, in which the bad guys are zapped off video screens at the push of a button. As in a game of Doom, the videos shown during NATO media briefings give no sense of the shattered bones and ripped flesh that follow when the bomb camera image turns to fuzz. And not surprisingly, the alliance prefers not to show any footage from the bombs that may have strayed from their targets...