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Ironically, the "all encompassing mass media" is responsible for your sense that US society is significantly more violent now than in some mythical good 'ol days. The tabloidization of the news media and the focus on horrible crimes as the main stories of the day creates an impression that these horrible crimes are happening by the thousands, when in fact they are not the norm. There existed then and there exist now many places in the US where I would feel commfortable hitch-hiking, and many place where you could not PAY me to hitchhike. Violence in the US (and the world) DID always exist. While crime and violence rates ebb and flow, changes in the reporting style of the media (what those in power decide is newsworthy) have drastically changed peoples perceptions of how safe they are, regardless of what the current statistics might tell them. Joe Rut Paul Richard Wrote: > It happened before rap music. But did the violent society that > exists in the US occur before mass media became all encompassing? > > You must be a young dude. I can remember when it was safe to > hitchhike most anywhere. I can remember when chicks didn't have any > qualms about getting in a stranger's car (and I'm not talking about > hookers as is probably you're normal dating scheme). The violent > scene in the US didn't always exist, dude. > -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10