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Letter of the Day: Violent images
Published: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 4:19 p.m.
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MIKE LESTER / Washington Post Writers GroupEDITOR: Companies spend millions of dollars to buy advertising space because they believe that seeing their product over and over again will influence people. Yet our society also believes that we can feed people, especially young people, a steady diet of the most horrible violence in movies, TV, video games, rap music and advertising and it will have no effect.
Does this make sense?
SERENA TURAN EMBREE
Santa Rosa
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