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TV violence fuels nastier bar brawls

February 10, 2010 by admin

(SMH) HOTELIERS have told a federal government inquiry into youth violence that pub brawls had not increased but attacks were more vicious and visible. The Australian Hotels Association said generation Y drinkers had been raised on TV violence but lacked the empathy that a thumping in the school ground had instilled in previous generations. ''We are getting people … going out having shaved, showered and slipping a knife in the pocket, which is a very strange attitude to going out and having a good time,'' the association's national president, Thomas McGuire, said. [..] The association's chief executive, Bill Healey, acknowledged.."These kids have been, on the one hand, exposed to substantial amounts of violence in what they see on TV and video games … but they [have] not actually experienced a lot of pain. They don't get kicked at school - the empathy factor of knowing how it feels.'' read more