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Edward Donnerstein, Departmnt of Communications, University of California; Paul Dovre, Concordia College; Dave Durenberger, U.S DOCUMENT RESUME ED 386 658 CG 026 482 TITLE S. 1383, Children's Protection from Violent Programming Act of 1993; S. 973, Television Report Card Act of 1993; and S. 943, Children's Television Violence Protection Act of 1993. Hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session. INSTITUTION Congress of the U.S., Washington, D.C. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. REPORT NO ISBN-0-16-046327-0; Senate-Hrg-103-852 PUB DATE 20 Oct 93 NOTE 138p. AVAILABLE FROMU.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402. PUB TYPE Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials (090) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Child Health; Child Rearing; ChLldren; *Childrels Television; Federal Legislation; Hearings; Legislation; *Mass Media Effects; Mass Media Role; Mass Media Use; Policy Formaticn; Programming (Broadcast); *Television Viewi.4; *Violence IDENTIFIERS Congress 103rd ABSTRACT It is estimated that the typical American child will watch 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence before finishing elementary school. Concern for the impact television violence may have on American society prompted this Senate hearing. As stated by Senator Hollings, the goals of the hearing were the following:(I) to detelmine the compelling State interest;(2) examine the historical record of Congress in this area;(3) review how the television industry could police itself; and (4) study the numerous bills which had been introduced. Opening statements were made by the following U.S. Senators (in order): Ernest F. Hollings, John C. Danforth, J. James Exon, Conrad Burns, Byron L. Dorgan, John F. Kerry, Slade Gorton, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Larry Pressler. Those presenting testimony were: Catherine Belter, National Parent Teacher Association; Winston Cox, Showtime Networks Inc. & National Cable Television Association's Satellite Network Programmers Committee; Gael Davis, National Council of Negro Women; Al DeVaney, WPWR-TV Channel 50 & Association of Independent Television Stat.ons, Inc.; Edward Donnerstein, Departmnt of Communications, University of California; Paul Dovre, Concordia College; Dave Durenberger, U.S. Senator from Minnesota; Robert Gould, National Coalition on Television Violence; Carl Levin, U.S. Senator from Michigan; Mara Purl, Susan Clark, & Alex Karas; James Quello, Federal Communications Commission; Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States; Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois; Joy Stockwell & Dean Stockwell; Howard Stringer, CBS Broadcast Group; Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America; George Vradenburg, III, Fox, Inc.; Lindsay Wagner. Appendices include: Carl Levin, U.S. Senator, letter from, to U.S. Senator Hollings, dated November 3, 1993; prepared statement of the American Medical Association; Ed Donnerstein, University of California, Santa Barbara, letter from, to John Windhausen; prepared statement of Senator Dorgan; and "H. F. Guggenheim Urges Vigilance against Media Violence," press release. (JBJ) S HRG 103-852 S. 1383, CHILDREN'S PROTECTION FROM VIOLENT PROG MING ACT OF 1993;S.973, VISION REPORT C ACT OF 1993; AND S. 943, CHILDREN'S TELEVISION VIOLENCE PRO- TECTION ACT OF 1993 in00 .0 00 HEARING C2) f.1.1 BEFORE ME COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION OCTOBER 20, 1993 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce, Scienoe, and Transportation DEPART ME NT OF EDUCATION F DUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER ERIC) O Th,s /M., noon nlynduci d tis n 0.0,1 11.0 pona.,n cii onlanc/.11.nn n, .n01.0,9 .1 O M e 1,1 Ip4.011,1,1,1l01, 1,1.1.111, P. ,.1. .r.n.ons !,1.11ed /1,1, nn,(n. ) ,0111 .1 t F I,. ." CNA U.S. GOVERNMENT PRIN-TING OFFICE 73-297cc WASIIINGTON :1993 C-0 liii sale the IS Gocernment Printiny Mkt: Supermtendent ot Documents. Cnnyresstonal Sales Olthe. Annyton. 2o4o2 ISBN 0-16-046327-0 BEST COPY AVAILABLE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION ERNEST F. HOLLINGS, South Carolina,Chairman DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii JOHN C. DANFORTH, Missoun WENDELL H. FORD, Kentucky BOB PACKWOOD, Ortvon J. JAMES EXON, Nebraska LARRY PRESSLER, South Dakota JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, West VirginiaTED STEVENS, Alaska JOHN F. KERRY, Massachusetts JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona JOHN B. BREAUX, Louisiana CONRAD BURNS, Montana RICHARD H. BRYAN, Nevada SLADE GORTON, Washington CHARLES S. ROBB, Virginia TRENT LOTT, Mississippi BYRON L. DORGAN, North Dakota KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, Texas HARLAN MATHEWS, Tennessee KtoriNC. Crims, Chief Counsel and Staff Director JONATHAN CHAMBERS,Republican Staff Director CONTENTS Page Opening statement of Senator Burns 8 Opening statement of Senator Danforth 6 Opening statement of Senator Dorgan 9 Opening statement of Senator Exon 7 Prepared statement 7 Opening statement of Senator Gorton 13 Opening statement of Senator Hollings 1 Prepared statement 5 Opening statement of Senator Hutchison 14 Opening statement of Senator Kerry 10 Opening statement of Senator Pressler 14 Prepared statement 15 Prepared statement of Senator McCain 15 LIST OF WITNESSES Belter, Catherine A., Vice President for Legislative Activity, National Parent- Teacher Association 68 Prepared statement 71 Cox, Winston H., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Showtime Networks Inc., and Chairman, National Cable Television Association's Satellite Net- work Programmers Committee 105 Prepared statement 109 Davis, Gael L.,President, East Side Section, National Council of Negro Women 79 DeVaney, Al, Senior Vice President and General Manager, WPWRTV Chan- nel 50, and Board Chairman, Association of Indept.ndent Television Sta- tions, Inc 96 Prepared statement 98 Donnerstein, Edward, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Communications, Uni- versity of California 58 Prepared statement 60 Dovre, Paul J., President, Concordia College 76 Prepared statement 77 Durenberger, Hon. Dave, U.S. Senator from Minnesota 16 Prepared statement 18 Gould, Robert, M.D., Chairman, National Coalition on Television Violence 63 Prepared statement 66 Levin, Hon. Carl, U.S. Senator fmm Michigan 19 Prepared statement 21 Purl, Mara, Susan Clark, and Alex Karas, joint statement of 85 Quello, James H., Chairman, Federal Communications Commission, prepared statement of 2 Reno, Hon. Janet, Attorney General of the United States, Department of Justice 25 Prepared statement 34 Simon, Hon. Paul, U.S. Senator from Illinois 22 Stockwell, Joy, and Dean Stockwell, joint statement of 85 Stringer, Howard, Presid('nt, CBS Broadcast Group 92 !'repared statement 94 Valenti, Jack, President and Chief Executive Officer, the Motion Picture Association of America 8S Prepared statement 91 Vradenburg, George, III, Executive Vice President, Fox, Inc 86 7.000 IV Pap Vradenburg, George, III, Executive Vice President, Fox, IncContinued Prepared statement 88 Wagner, Lindsay, Pacific Palisades, CA 62 APPENDIX Levin, Senator Carl, Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, letter from, to Senator Hollings, dated November 3, 1993 130 American Medical Association, prepared statement of the 127 Donnerstein, Ed, Ph.D., Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, letter from, to John Windhausen 133 Dorgan, Senator, prepared statement of 125 H.F. Guggenheim Urges Vigilance Against Media Violence (press release) 132 0 S. 1383, CHILDREN'S PROTECTION FROM VIO- LENT PROGRAMMING ACT OF 1993; S. 973, TELEVISION REPORT CARD ACT OF 1993; AND S. 943, CHILDREN'S TELEVISION VIO- LENCE PROTECTION ACT OF 1993 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1993 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION, Washington, DC. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:35 a.m. in room SR- 253, Russell Senate Office Building, Hon. Ernest F. Hollings (chair- man of the committee) presiding. Staff members assigned to this hearing: John D. Windhausen, Jr., staff counsel; and Regina M. Keeney, minority senior staff counsel, and Mary P. McManus, minority staff counsel. OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR HOLLINGS The CHAIRMAN. The committee will please come to order. Today we commence our hearing with respect to television violence. In a line, the American Psychological Association estimates the typical child will watch 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence before finishing elementary school. And we have seen the different acts over the years. Johnny Carson, when he put in a harmless way just a noose around his neck, dropping him through ahole, of course he emerged unharmed. A little 4-year-old, Nick DeFilippo, tried it and was found dead before the NBC TV screen. We had "The Deer Hunter," where those in the war were playing Russian roulette, flipping the barrel of the gun, taking their chances to whether the single bullet would strike. And after that particular scene in "The Deer Hunter," 26 people were found dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head. It is getting worse and worse. The American Pediatric Associa- tion has found out that acts of violence have trebled here in the eighties. And I think the important thing to record here as this committee, and I will put my full statement in the record, is that we started back in 1952 over on the House side, and then onthe Senate side with Senator Estes Kefauver in 1954. Senator Pastore, in the sixties, started a series of hearings when I first got to the Congress, and he had hearings in 1969, 1971, 1972, and 3 days of hearings again in 1974. I want to make a note here that about those hearings in 1974, because
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