This article about the Parents Television Council (subscribers only I'm afraid) on Salon includes a link to the following :: Parents Television Council - PTC RETRACTION TO WWE AND TO THE PUBLIC ::. I recommend you read it. It's amazing.

I remember hearing about the case at the time, and how conservative commentators were saying wrestling was responsible for the murder etc. Turns out the kids were watching the "Flintstones" and a cartoon called "Cow and Chicken". Of course the retraction gets no where near the publicity of the original allegation, even though the Parents Television Council had to pay $3.5 million in damages. Also, as you read through the rather grovelling apology you get some idea of the tatics, and basically lies, that are used when an organization like the PTC decides it has a target. It's like taking Ken Lay's word about the soundness of Enron.

Video games are another bogeyman for kiddy violence. The current hot button is Grand Theft Auto III but before that it was Doom. Of course the US Army publishes a video game so perhaps it really does encourage violence :)