Abstract
For many years David P Phillips of the University of California at San Diego has published papers which purport to show that 'some media stories do indeed trigger increases in fatal, antisocial behaviour' and has given apparently very sophisticated statistical treatment to this key point. Mass media coverage was related to suicide, homicide, car accidents with a suicidal component, murder suicide stories and crashes of private planes, and more recently to prize-fights and executions. Thus it is claimed that rewards of violence (prize-fights) lead to increased homicides; and stories of punishment of violence (executions) lead to decreased homicide.
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