TV violence.

• Position: Effects on children - Brief Article

Bashing, crashing overwhelms children

Here's what they say: "Viewing entertainment violence can lead to increases in aggressive attitudes, values and behaviors, particularly in children."

Here's who says it: the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Here's what to expect as a result of their efforts: Nothing. The sleazy brotherhood of blood-and-guts peddlers in the entertainment industry will just keep rolling their twisted version of life downhill to all of us, adults and children alike.

You think you can protect your child from murder and sadism glorified, magnified and brought to life on TV, in the movies and in video games? Think again. Unless you homestead in the remotest patch of Bush Alaska and forswear all modem "entertainment," you might as well resign yourself to violence in one form or another rubbed in your face almost daily. If not at your house, at your child's playmate's...