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that shelf are videocassettes and books. And the videocassettes were
taped off the air; they were bought; they were rented. I blush to
admit, some of them were taped from rented copies. (Laughter.)
But they got there because some parent cared enough to
put them there and to let the children watch over and over again, as
they do with their favorite books, the stories that are dear and near
to them.
MS. CHARREN: And to follow up on that, a lot of the
choices that are available from the new technology, which I mentioned
earlier, are not available to kids who need them the most. They are
expensive. Cable is expensive. Some of the pay channels are money
on top of money, and they provide a number of the choices that cable
does provide for children, and that if we don't really take care of
the public sector of broadcasting, we are going to have a situation
in this country that will make what's going on now look nice by
comparison when we don't reach one, whole, big portion of kids
growing up in America. So I want to take very good care of PBS.
MRS. CLINTON: And I just want to add to that comment,
Peggy, that we haven't talked this morning about the evidence that I
think is now conclusive about the impact of watching violence on
television and on children's behavior. We have argued about this
issue ever since the Surgeon General's report back in 1972 talking
about the impact of television viewing on children's behavior. There
have been many studies since.
And it is like the old problem we have -- every
time
there is another irrefutable piece of evidence about the linkage
between smoking and lung cancer, there will be somebody, well-paid,
who will stand up and say, well, that's not definitive. And we face
the same problem when we talk about the effects of violence and
children's behavior.
But Peggy is right. I mean, this is not just a do-
gooder, altruistic, nice thing that people like Peggy and I and the
rest of us here think should be done because we like children's
television. Certainly, I do. And I believe strongly in it. And
that's what my daughter watched, and we read the books that went
along with it.
But I am equally concerned about the other side of the
equation that the Professor talked about. And that is, those
children who are not watching the 25 minutes a day of public
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