Books Quote by Hugh Mackay

Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.

— Deborah Prothrow-Stith

“educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they’d be to their classmates. This correlation was…

— Po Bronson

Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less conviction and…

— Jacques Ellul

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

— Richard King

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

— George Carlin

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds…

— Alva Myrdal

The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging…

— Henry Giroux

“The desire to be exalted or thought as, if not superior, at least distinct, by the rest of humanity is a widespread impulse. One…

— Xavier Lastra

“Even the most outspoken of the critics must admit that long before we had print and film media to "spread the word," mankind was…

— Gary Gygax

When you have violence, there's victims, which entertainment tends not to explore that as much.

— Kari Skogland

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

— James T. Farrell

It is incumbent on the media industry to discourage the glorification of media violence. It is also incumbent on consumers who love America to…

— Bernice King