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Teens swayed by videos
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But it’s not just what’s on TV that is damag
ing to teens. According to a 2001 study by
Chaining the Channels, a non profit group
that \ises the media to promote faith and learn
ing and industry responsibility, black girls
between the ages of 14 to 18 who have seen X-
rated movies have less favorable attitudes
toward condom use than other teens.
“Just as vdth media violence, it is not true
that exposure to media secuality will make
young people behave irresponsibly” the report
states. “However , the research indicates that
the material erodes behavioral barriers,
shapes attitudes and expectations about sexu
al relationships and thus influences later
behavior.”
Rap music is also an influence in the lives of
black teens. According to WebMD, black girls
who viewed gar^ta rap videos for at least 14
hours per week were far more likely to practice
destructive behaviors.
Over the course of the one-year study they
were;
• Over 2.5 times more likely to get arrested
• Twice as likdy to have multiple sexual
partners
• 1.5 times more hkely to get a sexually
transmitted disease, use drugs, or drink alco
hol.
“What is particularly alarming about our
findings is that we didn’t find an association
wiih just violence or one or two risky behav
iors,” said researcher Ralph J. DiClemente,
PhD, of Emory University’s Rollins School of
Public Health. ‘We foimd an association with a
string of these behaviors.”
Tb combat the negative messages in the
media, Brown sad the media, schools, parents
and pediatricians need to pi-ovide more accu
rate and timely information to teens.
“Otherwise, the media will continue to serve
as a kind of sexual super peer that doesn’t have
the best interest of young people in mind,” she
said.
Former BET video host grows
a conscience, but at what cost?
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myself and Free.”
Now you feel like you were
hiuting your commimity
when it’s been reported that
you didn’t want to leave the
show to begin with. Give me a
break.
If Calloway truly cared
about the state of videos on
BET it wouldn’t have taken
him this long to say some
thing about it. For year's peo
ple have been complaining
about the programming on
the Wacom-owned network
and Calloway was silent as
long as he was cashing those
checks. Maybe he’s trying to
drum up some interest in his
projects, like his restaxurant
and a few TV pilots, by kick
ing BET when there are stud
ies being released about how
the hypersexuality of the
media effects teenagers, who
also watch “106 & Park.”
It’s OK to horse around at classic
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The 7 p.m. Saturday session
will begin with a performance
of the national anthem by
Presbyterian Hospital
employee Tbny Bentley fol
lowed by another Payne dres
sage performance.
Grand Prix Sunday begins
at 2 p.m,. with the Grand Prix-
of Charlotte competition for a
$150,000 piu'se. Miss
Charlotte USA, Jessica Floyd,
will perform the national
anthem.
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