Path: utzoo!hoptoad!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!sethg From: sethg@athena.mit.edu (Seth A. Gordon) Newsgroups: news.admin,alt.sex Subject: Sex vs. Violence in the Media Message-ID: <5192@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 8 May 88 03:23:48 GMT References: <442@white.gcm> <3880@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <974@unmvax.unm.edu> <4919@chinet.UUCP> <586@flatline.UUCP> <5846@well.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: sethg@athena.mit.edu (Seth A. Gordon) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 17 In article <5846@well.UUCP> slf@well.UUCP (Sharon Lynne Fisher) writes: > >>"I'd rather have my child watch a film of two people making love than of >>two people trying to kill one another." -- John Lennon >Actually, Lenny Bruce said this first. This reminds me of a survey done by a TV consumer group (I think it was ACT, Action for Children's Television) on violence on the tube. The network with the *most* violent acts per hour (or however they computed it was).... the Christian Broadcasting Network. No further comment. -- sethg%athena.MIT.EDU@mit-eddie.UUCP "...and from little sleep and much reading, sethg%athena.MIT.EDU@mitvma.BITNET| his brain dried up and he lost his wits." sethg@athena.MIT.EDU -------------| -- Cervantes, _Don_Quixote_de_la_Mancha_