“The Screen”is not “real”(3)

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American Academy of Pediatrics: Nearly 1000 studies
confirm a correlation between aggressive behavior in
children and media violence

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Chairman of APA’sCommission on Violence and Youth:
“There can no longer be any doubt that heavy exposure to
televised violence is one of the causes of aggressive
behavior, crime, and violenceamoungyoung people in our
society.”

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1984 attorney general’s task force on family violence found
“overwhelming evidence that TV violence contributes to
real violence.”

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LtcGrossman: “We have raised a generation which ahs
learned to associate violence with pleasure.”