Socolow featured on The Assignment with Audie Cornish discussing violence in sports
Michael Socolow, associate professor in the University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism, was featured on The Assignment with Audie Cornish, a CNN podcast, about the history of boxing, violence in sports and the future of the NFL. “What do you do when the population might have issues with the violence you’re providing to them through their television sets? And what the NFL did is they created new rules about the violence. They created penalties for hitting the quarterback in certain ways, and now we see if you’re concussed, you have to leave the field. You have to take a test. They brought the doctors in. They’ve … done all kinds of things and they’ve been helped by television. Television doesn’t show the most horrible injuries,” Socolow said.