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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Yes, I was a news watching/newspaper reading kid because my parents made us do that.  |
Same here
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I recall hearing it when you were coming up. I'm 7 years older than you.**
You wouldn't have heard it unless you were a news watching kid or scoured the up and coming Internet for news stories. Since your childhood, crime and violence are much more popular to report for mainstream media outlets. Here we are discussing this on a "fun" social networking site. This fuels the fear of crime and fear of "omg, times are changing!!!" that you hear from people--even young people who don't know what the hell things were like 10-20 years ago, anyway.
** I also recall hearing about it when I was a kid and there was no Internet or mainstream/super cool/hip and popular media outlets to report it. We'd hear via word of mouth; and the local and evening news and news papers always got a kick out of reporting things that they knew would shock people's sensibilities.
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I'm not naive enough to think that violence was non-existent during my upbringing. "Community policing" was widespread when I was growing up, though. There were several instances where fights were
going to jump off, but parents and residents stepped in before things got out of control. Those kids were properly dealt with after the fact, too.
I agree that the internet and "NOW NOW NOW" media has contributed to our knowing about these incidents sooner, but (outside of LA/Chi gang issues) I don't remember hearing of this many truly disturbing events.