A fuller examination of media regulation which argues that solutions such as the V-Chip just 'privilege certain viewers' values over others'. Film-makers David Puttnam and Michael Winner provide opposing views on the influence of violence in the movies. Real violence and TV', Washington Post March 3 1997. An imaginative and persausive examination of how viewers perceive this thing called 'TV violence'. It shifts the focus away from research definitions, to those who watch the programmes.
Shales argues that attacks on the new TV ratings system are premature.
Reviews the literature and arguments over the connections between violent content in the media, and violence in society. The title of this article is self-explanatory, as a challenge to predictable responses to the 1996 mass killings in Tasmania. The reality of television ratings in the United States'. Children Now . One of a series of briefings hosted by Children Now's Children and the Media program.