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Page 172 - Have authority to make general rules and regulations requiring stations to keep such records of programs, transmissions of energy, communications, or signals as it may deem desirable; (k) Have authority to exclude from the requirements of any regulations in whole or in part any radio station upon railroad rolling stock, or to modify such regulations in its discretion...
Page 32 - Commission — continued for the Surgeon General's scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior, and it now proceeds under a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Page 164 - Prevention of Violence chaired by Milton Eisenhower, suggested that there is "a strong probability that a high incidence of violence in entertainment programs is contributing to undesirable attitudes and even to violence in society." l In 1969, further attention was focused on television in hearings held by Senator John Pastore's Communications Subcommittee. As a result of these hearings, the Surgeon General was instructed to appoint a committee of distinguished men and women from whatever professions...
Page 173 - But the Act does not restrict the Commission merely to supervision of the traffic. It puts upon the Commission the burden of determining the composition of that traffic.
Page 165 - Thus, the two sets of findings converge in three respects: a preliminary and tentative indication of a causal relation between viewing violence on television and aggressive behavior; an indication that any such causal relation operates only on some children (who are predisposed to be aggressive); and an indication that it operates only in some environmental contexts.
Page 98 - Rollo May, Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence (New York: WW Norton, 1972), 165-79; Allport, The Nature of Prejudice, 337.
Page 126 - ... cut, final cut and editing stages and appropriate revisions are made if deemed necessary. Feature films that have been produced by others for initial theatrical release are screened prior to acquisition by ABC to determine whether major or minor deletions will be required or, as is not uncommon, whether a particular film is completely unacceptable. After acquisition the films are screened again -to review prior judgments and, as an additional measure, the edited versions are viewed prior to telecast...
Page 25 - To be able to hit hard and to strike terror in the hearts of one's opponents — that makes one count when the chips are down. The battered hero triumphs over evil by subduing the bad guy in the end. The last man to hit the dust confirms his own flaw of character and cause. Hurting is a test of virtue and killing is the ultimate measure of man. Loss of life, limb, or mind, any diminution of the freedom of action, are the wages of weakness or sin in the symbolic shorthand of ritual drama, (p. 44)...
Page 165 - The data on social phenomena such as television violence and/or aggressive behavior will never be clear enough for all social scientists to agree on a formulation of a succinct statement of causality. But there comes a time when the data are sufficient to justify action. That time has come.
Page 172 - ... so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, for the purpose of promoting safety of life and property through the use of wire and radio communication...