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Originally posted by pornomatic
Best documentary ever!
Shows why the average american afraid is :-)
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It would be a nice tight story indeed if we could just say "the media causes x to happen". I hope it doesn't escape your attention that fear and loathing and hatred and violence are all over the world and have been around for all of written history. Even the most ancient of historians were writing about the conflicts and problems of their cultures.
Of course it is much too simple of a statement because media reflects and mirrors society as much as it influences it. Such relationships are probably reflexive. Moore doesn't comment on that or a wide range of other causes and effects because he is telling a story.
In his movie, Michael Moore provides anecdotal evidence only that the belligerent actions of US policy cause higher homicide rates. There is no correlation however. Anecdotal evidence is hardly the stuff of good science.
Homicide rates in the US increased from the turn of the century and peaked in 1933. They then fell to a local low around 1960 and then climbed again until the mid-1990s and have since fallen back to the level of the 1960s.