America's Youth | Popular Culture Negatively Influences America’s Youth

I want to commend an article in [the New Republic] by Greg Easterbrook.

Here are the first two paragraphs of the article, which talk about the 1996 slasher/so-called “ironic-comedy” movie, Scream. The movie was produced by Disney’s Miramax division. Easterbrook writes:

Is Mass Murder Fun?

Millions of teens have seen the 1996 movie Scream, a boxoffice and home-rental hit. Critics adored the film. The Washington Post declared that it “deftly mixes irony, selfreference, and social wry commentary.” The Los Angeles...

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