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HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
IT TAKES A VILLAGE
2;
lence prevents them from developing the emotional and
it is not fair to hold television to a higher standard. But
psychological tools they need to deal with the threat and
as Minow points out:
the reality of violence. Shootings, beatings, even killings,
begin to seem normal and, in an odd way, painless. Chil-
The tradition of oral and written storytelling
dren become numbed-"desensitized"-to violence.
embodied in both fairy tales and modern chil-
Whether, and under what circumstances, the violence
dren's literature developed in the service of chil-
dren's moral education, and its lessons helped
people see on television and at the movies actually incites
to define the boundaries between childhood
violent acts is 2 question researchers have debated for
years, ever since the surgeon general's 1972 report. As
and adulthood. In traditional settings, violence
with smoking and lung cancer, however, we know that
was but one possible outcome of conflict, not
there is a connection. Yet just as somebody-most often
the only one or even the primary one. More-
over, stories that included violence surrounded
somebody well paid by the tobacco companies-is sure
to stand up each time a new finding confirms the linkage
it with meanings created by adults for in-
between smoking and lung cancer and shout, "That's not
structing children, not by adults for entertain-
definitive," every time a new report draws a connection
ing adults.
between the violence on our television screens and the
Television executives are also quick to say that they are
violence on our streets, some in the entertainment indus-
a major provider of information as well as entertainment.
try try to refute, or at least to dilute, the claim.
They stress that it is the duty of journalists to report
You don't have to conduct research worthy of a Nobel
what goes on in the world. It's true that children now get
Prize to grasp that what most children are seeing on tele-
most of their information about events at home and
vision can't be good for them. Just turn on your televi-
around the world directly from the media instead of fil-
sion, any time of the day, any day of the week, and see
tered through their parents, teachers, or other adults.
what is competing for their attention. I'll bet that if a
And it's also true that we need to be made aware of crime
stranger came into your home and began telling your
and violence so that we can take actions to protect our-
kids stories about the same kinds of characters and
selves, such as supporting measures to impose sensible
events, using the same kinds of words and pictures, you'd
gun control. But why, when we turn on the evening news
throw him out. You wouldn't wait for a surgeon general's
these days, do we find ourselves awash in depictions of
report to validate what your instincts as a parent told you
sensationalized violence that are increasingly difficult to
was a hazard to your children's mental and emotional
distinguish from the gore that permeates the latest "ac-
health.
tion" series?
Defenders of television argue that children are subjected
In 1992, the Center for Media and Public Affairs
to images of violence in all sorts of media-including
counted the acts of violence on ten television channels in
fairy tales and other literary classics-and complain that
the course of a single eighteen-hour broadcast day. When
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. COPYRIGHT o 1995 SIMON a SCHUSTEN
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