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“What Parents Should Know About Emo”: Local News Will Never Tire Of Scaremongering With it

11:37 AM EDT on July 11, 2007

Once upon a time, this thing called 'broadcast journalism' got started, and at some point thereafter (probably its inception), producers and anchors realized that scaring the piss out of parents and instilling a culture of fear was really great for ratings! Which are great for advertisers, which are great for paying for more reports to keep parents hooked to the news and petrified. So yeah, we've seen this sort of report on the suicidal tendencies of kids who have "swoop" haircuts, wear guyliner, and/or sing for My Chemical Romance, but we thought you'd need to see a fourth version of it just to get the point home. Parents, your children are going to cut themselves. The big take home? "Ask your kids more about their music." Watch at CBS 47.

That one lady was thinking "Elmo" (she made a funny!), but that mama's so out of the loop. Emo Elmo's old news.

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