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    "ocrText": "Page 12\nFederal News Service, MARCH 1, 1996\nfather of a 16 and 14-year-old daughters and 7 and 5-year-old sons. And in that\nbroad spectrum, I have seen some remarkable differences in attitude and\nbehaviors towards what they see on television and what they listen to, only\nwithin that generational gap in my own family.\nThese are powerful influences. Television is an extraordinary media, one that\nwe should be very, very pleased that we have access to that technology, because\nchildren have learned enormous things and have benefitted greatly. But with\nthe good side of technology there is the potential risk, and it is that risk\nthat I and the scientific community have become particularly concerned about\nbecause we know without balancing that risk, without paying attention to the\nways in which children learn, the kinds of violent images that sometimes are\nseen on television in which violent acts go unpunished, in which violence may be\nmasked in humor in which there is no pain -- you know I evaluated someone in a\nhospital down south not too long ago who looked at me from his bedside, having\nbeen involved in a homicide in which he was shot, and he said to me, \"Doc, I\nnever realized it was going to hurt to be shot.\"\nThese are powerful statements coming from our children. And these are the kinds\nof images that we, as parents, at the very least need some help in making\ndeterminations as to what children are exposed to, at what age, and what\nfrequency. What my 16 and 14-year- old watch may be quite different from what I\nthink my 7 and 5-year-old ought to watch.\nAnd I think what the two of you have done has really helped facilitate the\nindustry and parents to work together on creating a stronger and more healthy\nenvironment in which children can use television in a productive and useful way.\nPRESIDENT CLINTON: Hillary, do you want to comment on that based on what you\nsaid\nMRS. CLINTON: No, that was incredible. I mean; I think that if we could get\nevery parent to hear that and understand it, then the rating system and the\nV-chip would be even more effective because, of course, one of our challenges is\nto convince parents to use the rating system and to take the time and energy\nthat will be required to implement it in their own homes, and then when the\nV-chip comes along, to be ready to use that as well.\nAnd the information they can get, such as the doctor is explaining, about what\nwe know is the linkage between what they see on television and how they behave,\nI think the more willing parents will be to act.\nPRESIDENT CLINTON: I want to get to this to the young people here.) But let\nme tell you it's okay if you disagree with us about this. (Laughter.) We want\nto hear what you really think. But I want to ask the doctor one more question.\nBefore I had this job -- as I used to say, back when I had a life -- (laughter)\n-- I -- I used to -- I was a governor of my state, when I ran a big prison\nsystem and a big criminal justice system, obviously. And then I was attorney\ngeneral. And before that, I taught criminal law. So I've been following issues\nof crime and violence closely, from that perspective, for more than 20 years\nnow.\nFor most of my time, it was an article of (faith ?) that 75 percent of all the\nviolence crimes in America were created by people between the ages of 17 and 26,\nand that there was almost a hormonal problem. If you could, literally, just get\nviolent people and put them somewhere until they were 27, you could let them out\n(chuckling) and they would not do that again; that there really almost\nseemed to be sea changes.\nNow we see an astonishing thing, with the crime rate going down among people 18\nand over -- and I might add, with drug use going down among people over 18 --\nand violence going up among people under 18 and -- (well ?) as well as casual"
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