Implementation of the Television Program Improvement Act of 1990: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session ... May 21 and June 8, 1993, Volume 4 |
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Page 83 - What you gentlemen broadcast through the people's air affects the people's taste, their knowledge, their opinions, their understanding of themselves and of their world. And their future. The power of instantaneous sight and sound is without precedent in mankind's history. This is an awesome power. It has limitless capabilities for good— and for evil. And it carries with it awesome responsibilities— responsibilities which you and I cannot escape. In his stirring Inaugural Address, our President...
Page 152 - Nevertheless, the evidence indicates that if, hypothetically, television technology had never been developed, there would today be 10,000 fewer homicides each year in the United States, 70,000 fewer rapes, and 700,000 fewer injurious assaults.
Page 166 - ... crime action shows such as "Cops" or "Rescue 911", from sports such as boxing and wrestling to dramatized or fictionalized made-for-TV movies on any number of subjects involving crime, murder, rape and violence in general. TV violence may have particularly harmful or negative effects upon certain segments of the viewing population, including children, emotionally unstable individuals with volatile personalities, and spouse or child abusers (that is, upon those too young to understand or otherwise...
Page 1993 - US SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION, COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at l0:02 am, in room SD-226, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon.
Page 84 - Ladies and Gentlemen: Ask not what broadcasting can do for you — ask what you can do for broadcasting. I urge you to put the people's airwaves to the service of the people and the cause of freedom. You must help prepare a generation for great decisions. You must help a great nation fulfill its future. Do this, and I pledge you our help.
Page 31 - Violence5 and the 1972 Surgeon General's report. Television and Growing Up. The Impact of Televised Violence* Those findings were updated and reinforced by the 1982 report of the National Institute of Mental Health, Television and Behavior. Ten...
Page 99 - Also, the rewards that the heroes receive for their violent behavior legitimize and tacitly endorse violence as a means of solving problems. Finally, the frequency with which children view violence, and the lack of long-term consequences for the victims of violence, desensitizes children and makes them more passive to acts of violence and less likely to intervene when violence occurs.
Page 31 - This might not be bad, if young children understood what they are watching. However, up through ages 3 and 4 years, many children are unable to distinguish fact from fantasy in television programs and remain unable to do so despite adult coaching.1* In the minds of such young children, television is a source of entirely factual information regarding how the world works.
Page 30 - Nevertheless, the epidemiological evidence indicates that if, hypothetically, television technology had never been developed, there would today be 10,000 fewer homicides each year in the United States, 70,000 fewer rapes, and 700,000 fewer...
Page 31 - In later life, serious violence is most likely to erupt at moments of severe stress — and it is precisely at such moments that adolescents and adults are most likely to revert to their earliest, most visceral sense of the role of violence in society and in personal behavior. Much of this sense will have come from television.