Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.
As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are in a child's bedroom; this means that the mediating effect of watching with a parent, the ability to discuss and interpret what has been seen, is lost.
Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.
Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.
And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
This is certainly not to excuse the violence that exists on TV and films and on the Internet. But the truth is that wherever you go in Europe, there are American films and TV shows that are just as popular as at home. And you don't have that sense of violence in any other place other than America.