Documents from the author of 'Seduction of the Innocent' to be opened to the public

[thewayne]

Frederic Wertham was a psychiatrist who was hung up on violent imagery inspiring young minds to commit acts of violence, and his biggest targets were comic books and television. His 1954 book, Seduction of the Innocent, became the basis of a congressional investigation, which resulted in the comic publishers creating a self-censoring organization, the Comic Code Authority.

Wertham later tried to reform television but had no success there, he couldn't even get his book published on TV's influence on children.

http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/08/papers-of-comic-book-villain-open-at-library/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Wertham

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/30/1624221/Library-of-Congress-Opens-Records-of-Anti-Comic-Book-Shrink

Comments

[silveradept]

And what he was protesting against has become the mainstream of mainstream media. I'm betting that you could use him as a power-generating dynamo with Jerry Springer on a loop as the catalyst, with how much he is spinning in his grave.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Some interesting imagery there, dude! ;-)

[silveradept]

You're welcome. I figure we've probably got enough dead people that we could power a significant part of the country just on our own moral turpitude.