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Federal News Service, MARCH 1, 1996
(Laughter, cross talk.)
MS. : Without a doubt.
MS. CALDWELL: (Laughing.) So we're really delighted with both of the V-chip and
(this rating bill ?)
MR. CALDWELL (?): It is important. I mean, one of the first things that I
noticed, as parents of toddlers, is that one of the first things our children
learned is how to turn on the TV. And they were 2
(scattered
laughter)
--
and they could figure out --
MS. : Yeah.
MR. CALDWELL (?) : how to hit the remote, what it channel it had to be on to
actually get the screen on. So something like this is a vital first step for
working parents like us, who, you know, can't be there every single minute that
the baby's looking at TV.
VICE PRESIDENT GORE: Mr. President, you will remember that Dr. Robert Phillip
(sp) with the American Psychiatric Association was one of the expert's who met
with us in Nashville last summer and the expert that pointed out that there have
been about 1,000 studies about the relationship between televised violence and
actual violence, and about six of them have said there's no connection. About
994 have said there is a very strong connection. And you were telling us in
Nashville about why the expert community has felt strongly about this. Why don't
you share some of that?
DR. ROBERT PHILLIP (SP): Well, I am a psychiatrist by training, although I
remind my colleagues that I did a sub-internship in obstetrics, so I am ready to
(laughter) -- (respond ?), if necessary.
MS. I don't think I'll need you again. (Laughter.)
DR. PHILLIP: I spend most of my time evaluating persons who've committed crimes,
and then testifying in court. And I what's becoming shocking to me (is ?)
that the persons that I was called to evaluate were becoming younger and
younger, and the crimes that they were committing were becoming more and more
heinous. And it began to focus my attention on what some of the root causes
were and what are the things that are (coming ?) to influence children to behave
in ways that most of us, when we were children, perhaps would not even think of
doing.
The research information is overwhelming and it's clear. Mrs. Gore called our
attention to the way in which violence within demeaning musical lyrics can
potentially affect the way in which children behave. Mrs. Clinton, in her book,
talks about the way in which young brains form and the way the hard-wiring of
that brain is so easily influenced because, by design, children are great
imitators. That's how they learn. And in my own clinical experience and the
research work that I've been doing, there's no question that both those things
are true.
We are a society that has become infatuated with violence, and we feed our
addiction to violence in every way conceivable, including at the news trailers
at 5:00, 6:00, 10:00, and 11:00, on every show that you can think of. "The
National Television Violence Study," which the American Psychiatric Association
and other professional groups have participated in, has shown that violence is
free and gratuitous on television, and its effect on children is powerful.
Children are like little VCRs. They see something once and then they repeat it,
and they repeat it over and over and over again.
I share the enthusiasm that my colleagues share today in thanking you, Mr.
President, and you, Mr. Vice President, for taking the leadership in an area
where parents -- and while I am trained clinically, my primary job is to be the
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