In your message dated Wednesday 6, September 1995 you wrote :

> The Senate bill, for example, includes these findings: 
> 
> 	*  The average American child watches 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of 
> other violence on television by the time the child completes elementary 
> school.
> 	*  By the age of 18 years, the average American teenager has 
> watched 200,000 acts of violence on television, including 40,000 murders.

These two points are not evidence of an effect.  If they point to anything, they 
point to the conclusion that any veiwing of an act of violence must have an 
imeasurably small effect.  (multiply that 200,000 acts of violence by the total 
US population, and then divide by the number of acts of real violence you think 
are directly attributable - that will give you the chances of watching an act of 
violence making you commit one.)

> 	*  On several occasions since 1975, The Journal of the American 
> Medical Association has alerted the medical community to  the adverse 
> effects of television violence on child development, including an 
> increase in the level of aggressive behavior and violent behavior among 
> children who view it.


Ah..  a piece of real evidence.  Unfortunately, you don't give any proportions 
or statistics to define it.

How many children were tested?  What level of violence was measured?  How was it 
measured?  What was the history of these children?  Were there lab conditions 
imposed, or is this just a guess?

More importantly was the violence an instant reaction (ie. children playing to 
get it out of their system) which would be a very good reaction - Or was there a 
long term effect?

> 	*  The National Commission on Children recommended in 1991 that 
> producers of television programs exercise greater restraint in the 
> content of programming for children.


Again, this is not evidence of anything except hysteria.


> 	*  A report of the Henry Frank Guggenheim Foundation dated May 
> 1993, indicates that there is an irrefutable connection between the 
> amount of violence depicted in the television programs watched by 
> children and increased aggressive behavior among children.


Again, you're not giving us the irrifutable evidence, you're just saying it 
exsists.  I would have thought having read your previous posts that you at least 
would understand that just because somebody of importance says something, that 
doesn't make it true.
 
> Vigdor Schreibman - FINS 
> 
> 
> 

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Christian Darkin


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