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Editorials
October 9, 2000 issue

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This editorial highlights some social and political issues in the U.S. The culture of carnage surrounding U.S. children is "turning some of them into killers" Joe Lieberman thundered at the Senate Commerce Committee's hearing on the marketing of violent entertainment. Al Gore and Lieberman want to sanction companies for targeting "adult-rated" music and movies at young audiences, as if rough lyrics were as measurably toxic in their effect as tobacco. Presidential candidate George W. Bush has made it clear that he admires judges like Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, two of the most reactionary Justices ever to sit on a federal court.

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MUSIC trade; PORNOGRAPHY -- Law & legislation; BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; SANCTIONS (Law); PRESIDENTIAL candidates; UNITED States
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