TV doesn t impact everybody, but it doesn t mean that it doesn t impact anybody . The whole situation with crime in this country, with violence, with sexual violence directed against women and children, all of that is changed if only one of 100,000 people who see the worst of this material is impacted. But there s something else, because that s not the only influence. . . . By glamorizing violence and promiscuity and anti-social behavior of every kind TV and the movie industry create the idea that this sort of behavior is glamorous, is desirable. That s the real power of the medium of TV in particular it redefines normal .
Most people assume that anything they see often enough on TV is normal behavior.
And in that sense, the entertainment industry not only changes our notion of what is accepted in society, but it changes our notion of what is expected. We don t shape things, we just show them as they are. If the face in the mirror is ugly, you don t blame the mirror. On average there are seven murders during prime time on any given evening. That means seven out of let s say three hundred people die.