Hitler glued to the TV screen

Today's quote of the day award goes to the following text:

For example, psychological and sociological studies have been performed ad nauseam to "prove" that exposure to television violence predisposes children to accept or emulate violent behavior. But these correlative studies could just as easily "predict" such nonaggressive undesirable behaviors as employment instability, auto accidents, drug consumption, and nonviolent criminal offenses--as one researcher put it, "behaviors hard to attribute to the number of shootings or fistfights watched on television twenty years previously." [1] Both Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler managed to exhibit quite a bit of aggressive behavior without having watched television--indeed, if they had, they might have become glued to the screen and lost interest in wars of conquest

source: http://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=245


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