Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
When I went through puberty I had a huge rebellion against movies. I was so upset with how they brainwashed me that I didn't watch movies for years.
I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day.
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television
I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.
The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.
The media do strange things.
So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?
As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.
Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values
We need to take on Hollywood. They are poisoning the minds of our kids.
Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.
I don't know - personally, I don't watch many films where the violence itself is the main entertainment, because I find them boring.
I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.
I think that if someone plays a video game, and then goes out and harms another human being, or themselves because of what they just saw in the video game, they were screwed up in the head long before they got their hands on a controller.
Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.
People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.
Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.
It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.
Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.
Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
