{"id":704,"date":"2002-09-20T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2002-09-21T06:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/20\/violence-in-the-media\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:47:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:47:20","slug":"violence-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/20\/violence-in-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence in the media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15634,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.slashdot.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260313202625\\\/https:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.slashdot.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 03:41:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 04:10:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 04:10:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15821,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.theonionavclub.com\\\/avclub3731\\\/avfeature_3731.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/comments.pl?sid=40356&amp;cid=4299632&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15823,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/comments.pl?sid=40356&amp;cid=4299816&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I was browsing through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashdot.org\/\" title=\"Slashdot\">\/.<\/a> tonight when someone mentioned an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonionavclub.com\/avclub3731\/avfeature_3731.html\" title=\"The Onion A.V. Club | Joss Whedon\">interview with Joss Whedon<\/a> over at The Onion from last year (oh, except I&#8217;m not supposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/breakin_the_law.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Breakin' the Law! Breakin' the Law!\">link directly<\/a> to articles inside The Onion&#8230;I guess I better just link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=40356&amp;cid=4299632\" title=\"\/.: for anyone who is interested...\">\/. post that has the entire interview copied into it<\/a> &#8212; so, which is the greater copyright breach? Anyway&#8230;). It&#8217;s a good interview on its own, but this quote is as a <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=40356&amp;cid=4299816\" title=\"\/.: re: for anyone who is interested...\">followup \/. post<\/a> said, &#8220;I think that&#8217;s just about the most intelligent and responsible thing I&#8217;ve ever read about the influence of culture on behaviour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  People say, &#8220;After Columbine, do you feel a responsibility about the way you portray violence?&#8221; And I&#8217;m like, &#8220;No, I felt a responsibility about the way I portrayed violence the first time I picked up a pen.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People say, &#8216;After Columbine, do you feel a responsibility about the way you portray violence?&#8217; And I&#8217;m like, &#8216;No, I felt a responsibility about the way I portrayed violence the first time I picked up a pen.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}