XPost: phl.media, phl.housing, pa.politics   
   From: dommanno@netscape.net   
      
   In article ,   
    kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu (Karen Y Byrd) wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 03:10:45 GMT, mcs  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Gee where is shrink and Karen to calm the souls of the families of the three   
   > >people murdered last night.   
   >   
   > Maybe I'm living in a fool's paradise but I'm not going to lie   
   > and say I'm suddenly feeling less secure because of these   
   > murders. I just don't feel the sense of impending doom the   
   > way you do. But there's this: I *don't* watch TV very often   
   > and I never watch TV news anymore. I believe those things   
   > influence people's attitudes enormously usually in a negative way.   
      
   Very true. There have been studies, most of them by the Annenberg   
   School of Communications at Penn, that show a definite correlation   
   between watching TV news and the fear of crime in urban areas.   
      
      
      
   > >The criminals are on the war path and nothing is said or done.   
   >   
   > mcs, I promise you that I will go around today, unhampered,   
   > by any criminals.   
   >   
   > > Welcome to   
   > >dysfunctional Philly where soon if your not moving, your going to be a   
   > >victim of crime and will be moving. Great freaking criminal city with   
   > >pollution levels high! dangerous.   
   >   
   > Only to you and in your mind!   
      
   Crime was much worse in the early '90s than it is now. I was the   
   victim of a string of crimes (against my person and against my   
   property) back then, but since '95 or so, nothing. And I live in a   
   more dangerous neighborhood now.   
   --   
   D.F. Manno   
   dommanno@netscape.net   
   "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what   
   they do not want to hear." (George Orwell)   
      
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