What is to Blame for Youth Violence?: The Media, Guns, Parenting, Poverty, Bad Programs, Orâ ¦

The first-ever Surgeon General's report on youth
violence was recently released by Dr. David Satcher, a
Clinton appointee who still holds his position in the
Bush Administration. The report hardly made a ripple
in the public debate, but what caught my attention was
the press reports regarding what wasn't in the report,
rather than what was.
In a press conference when the report was
released, Dr. Satcher was asked about media violence,
and he responded that the media is not a major
influence on youth violence. As someone who has read
dozens of studies and reports about the impact of
media…