Does the corporate media alter, magnify or reinforce American Perceptions regarding

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the use of violence?

Warning; graphic language.

Are we as a nation becoming more subconsciously desensitized by mass propaganda via traditional news and in the form of movies?

As an individual, you may say no but does it influence our culture in general?

With all that's going on in the last few weeks, Gaza, Ukraine, Iraq, Ferguson etc. etc. the video above was on the front page of YouTube, so perhaps it's a self-feeding circle?

http://www.newsweek.com/facebook-performed-psychology-experiment-thousands-users-without-telling-them-256914

If you’re on Facebook, there’s a roughly 0.04 percent chance the social media behemoth used you for a psychology experiment in early 2012, though you’d have had no way of knowing at the time and indeed would only be finding out about the experiment this week.

That’s what happened when researchers used nearly 700,000 Facebook users as guinea pigs for a study on “emotional contagion.” In brief, the study separated its users into two groups. One was subjected to a newsfeed of primarily positive posts; the other was flooded with emotionally negative items.

The results “suggest that the emotions expressed by friends, via online social networks, influence our own moods, constituting, to our knowledge, the first experimental evidence for massive-scale emotional contagion via social networks,” the researchers write in a paper now published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. In other words, the study confirmed what heavy Facebook users have long known to be true: what your friends post on Facebook can have a tangible impact on your own emotional state.

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