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Great article...
There is too much NEWS, I mean with all 24 hour newschannels, all the "news magazines" not to mention talk radio. There is only so much that can go on during the day to report, so what to do...make up shit!! Remember the side impact crashes in Ford or Chevy trucks that NBC rigged to explode, because their real "investigation" was unfounded, so they had to make it so people would watch it. Same deal, exploit the hell out of something to cause fear about something most people know very little about.
When I was growing up it was Heavy Metal and D&D were evil. My wife is a middle school librarian, and she saw an article about playing D&D as an after school program, Wizards of the Coast has its own D&D school packs so they can run games after school.. It blew my mind, but makes since, most of the parents remember D&D and quite a few played. As gamers age (like me), this will become less and less "shocking" and they'll move on to something else.
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