Quotes

“ The evidence is overwhelming. To argue against is like arguing against gravity.”

American Psychological Association on the wealth of

information linking media violence and teen violence.

The New York Times, May 9, 1999

“ In a 1995 study, the American Academy of Pediatrics stated that of all the causes of violent crime in America, media violence is ‘the single most remediable factor’”

-California Senate,Resolution on Media Violence

May, 1999

“ Media Executive Ted Turner concedes, ‘Television violence is the single most significant factor contributing to violence in America…’”

-California Senate,Resolution on Media Violence

May, 1999

“ CBS President, Leslie Moonves was asked if he thought the media had anything to do with the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado. His answer was, ‘Anyone who thinks the media has nothing to do with it is an idiot.’”

The Washington PostMay 19, 1999

“’ We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.’”

Michael Eisner, Head of DisneyQuoted from the book,

The Keys to the Kingdom, by Kim Masters

Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Brandon Centerwall June 10, 1992

“[T]he introduction of television…caused a subsequent [15-year-later] doubling of the homicide rate, i.e., long term childhood exposure to television is a casual factor behind approximately one-half of the homicides committed annually…

…if, hypothetically, television technology had never been developed, there would today be 10,000 fewer homicides each year in the U.S., 70,000 fewer rapes, and 700,000 fewer injurious assaults.”