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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: The Video Game Freakout (1993)
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It’s December 8th. In 1993, Senator Joe Lieberman announces hearings to air concerns about violence in video games. Jody, Niki and Kellie discuss how the moral panic about video game violence came to be, and how there will always be something for parents to freak out about.
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