"The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge."

Source : "Mayhem – Violence as Public Entertainment, Part I". "The Open Mind" with Richard Heffner, www.thirteen.org. March 4, 1998.

Sissela Bok

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