WHY don’t government lackeyst do a Google search on the things they intend saying before they blurt them out?Admittedly, Hlaudi Motsoeneng doesn’t care what people think of him; or, seemingly, about the asinine and trite things that come out of his mouth. His assertion that showing violent protests on TV news leads to more violence is as absurd as it is that he remains in his position, despite the public protector’s and two court rulings which said he was illegitimately in charge.I asked The Google: “Does watching violence on TV cause people to be violent?” and got a mostly negative answer to the question.“Watching violence in the media does not cause crime,” summed up the second result, from Psychology Today.“Violent tendencies reside within the personality, whether or not the person watches programming depicting violence. The television programme, the movie, or the video game do not turn him into something alien to his basic personality,” wrote Dr Stanton Samenow, about “the absur...
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