Sorry for slurring my type....
"On YouTube, drinking often depicted as safe" by Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post March 01, 2015
WASHINGTON — Getting drunk is disinhibiting, and the negative consequences, especially if you are young and you do it often enough, can include car accidents, unsafe sex, fights, victimization, alcohol dependence, and other nasty, unwanted effects.
That’s not the world of intoxication as depicted on YouTube, however, where attractive people doing funny things predominate and ‘‘negative clinical outcomes’’ are seldom on display.
In a study published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, University of Pittsburgh researchers watched, and coded, the 70 most popular YouTube videos depicting intoxication — a group that received, collectively, 333.2 million views.
The researchers, from the university’s Schools of the Health Sciences, say theirs is the first ‘‘comprehensive’’ attempt to analyze the way intoxication is depicted on YouTube.
What they found should disturb, or at least make one aware, that the mostly young viewers of YouTube are seeing a very skewed portrayal of heavy drinking.
‘‘A lot of the myths that are propagated on social media . . . are very similar to the ones that we see . . . propagated through a lot of movies and ads and TV shows — namely that intoxication is extremely humorous, that it is associated with very positive emotional and sexual consequences,’’ said Brian Primack, the lead researcher and assistant vice chancellor for health and society in the Health Sciences school.
Sorry for going all sour on the pot-hollering-kettle propaganda pre$$.
‘‘We see somebody falling down, we see somebody breaking something, but then through quick cuts or through editing, we turn that into something funny, as opposed to something that might have harmful consequences,’’ he added.
In the real world, Primack, who is also a physician, said he sees alcohol causing cirrhosis of the liver, family breakups, and serious injuries....
But bars and alcohol sales are a big part of the economy.
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Nothing about JouTube removing videos offensive to Zionist sensibilities, 'eh?
