The Culture of Fear_ Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things - Barry Glassner [141]
38 Christopher B. Daly, “Sexual Abuse Cases Take Their Toll on Catholic Dioceses,” Washington Post, 1 November 1994, p. A3; Jenkins, Pedophiles and Priests.
39 Walter Russell Mead, “A Crisis of Faith Bedevils Roman Catholic Church,” Los Angeles Times, 12 December 1993, p. M1.
40 Daniel Pedersen, “Death in Dunblane,” Newsweek, 25 March 1996, pp. 25—29 (quote on p. 25); Hugo Young, “The Myth That America Is Unique,” Newsweek, 25 March 1996, p. 29.
41 One reason Catholic clergy (rather than, say, Baptist or Methodist clergy) are targets for accusations about pedophilia is, paradoxically, their unmarried status. See Jenkins, Pedophilesand Priests, pp. 9, 50—51. Reuters quote from Maggie Fox, “Dunblane ‘Pervert’ Who Struck Back at Whispers,” Reuters, 17 March 1996.
42 Fox, “Dunblane ‘Pervert’.” For an example of the coverage see Louis J. Salome, “Killer of 17 Liked Boys, Guns,” Austin American—Statesman, 15 March 1996, p. A1. On myths and realities about molesters: Jenny et al., “Are Children at Risk”; Best, Threatened Children; National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Study Findings; Pauline Bart and Eileen Moran, eds., Violence Against Women (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993).
43 Bill Hewitt et al., “Innocents Lost,” People,1 April 1996, pp. 42-49 (quotes from pp. 48, 49). Hamilton’s letter is quoted in several news accounts cited.
44 Pedersen, “Death in Dunblane” (quote in sidebar).
45 Philip Jenkins, Using Murder (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994), pp. 183-87.
46 Jenny et al., “Are Children at Risk”; Bettina Boxall, “Statistics and Science Can Be Twisted to Suit Debate,” Los Angeles Times, 12 November 1993, p. A18; Nicholas Groth, Men Who Rape(New York: Plenum, 1979). The pedophile-homosexual connection is made in coverage of pedophile priests as well: see Jenkins, Pedophiles and Priests, ch. 6. Sheldon quote from “C.C. Watch,” Electronic News Service, April 1996.
47 Lance Morrow, “The Unconscious Hums, ‘Destroy!’” Time, 25 March 1996, p. 78.
48 Hewitt et al., “Innocents Lost”; Associated Press, “Scottish Killer Ran Boys’ Groups ... ,” Chicago Tribune, 15 March 1996, p. 6.
49 Newsweek quote from Pedersen, “Death in Dunblane,” p. 25; People quote from Hewitt et al., “Innocents Lost.”
50 “What Is Sporting About Such Guns?” Daily Mail, 18 March 1996, p. 8.
51 On the news media’s irresponsibility regarding guns see Thomas Winship, “Step Up the War Against Guns,” Editor and Publisher, 24 April 1993, p. 24. Quote from Young, “Myth That America Is Unique,” p. 29.
52 Daniel Schorr, “TV Violence,” Christian Science Monitor, 7 September 1993, p.19. That media violence is often cited as a cause for serial murder see Jenkins, Using Murder, p. 125.
53 Patrick Cooke, “TV Causes Violence?” New York Times, 14 August 1993, p. 11 (contains quote).
54 The UCLA study, released in report form in September 1995, was directed by Jeffrey Cole, Center for Communication Policy, UCLA. On the advantages of painful portrayals of violence see also Robert Scheer, “Violence Is Us,” Nation, 15 November 1993, p. 555.
55 Cooke, “TV Causes Violence?”
56 Among the more cogent critiques: Brian Siano, “Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed,” TheHumanist 54 (January-February 1994): 19—25. On non-U.S. studies see Oene Wiegman et al., “A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Television Viewing on Aggressive and Prosocial Behavior,” British Journal of Social Psychology31 (1992): 147-64. An overview and elaboration of the complexities of causal analysis in this body of research: Cecilia von Feilitzen, “Media Violence,” in C. Hamelink and O. Linne, eds., Mass Communication Research (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994), pp. 147-70.
57 Brandon Centerwall, “Our Cultural Perplexities,” Public Interest, no. 111 (Spring 1993): 56-72; David Horowitz, “V Is for Vacuous Censorship,” Los Angeles Times, 8 February 1996, p. B9.
58 David McDowall, “Firearm Availability and Homicide Rates in Detroit,” Social Forces 69 (1991): 1085-1101; Daniel Webster et al., “Gun Violence Among Youth ... ,” Pediatrics 94 (1994): 617-22; Arthur Kellerman