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...didn't want to get into a show-by-show debate," says Ed Donnerstein, communications and psychology professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where most of the monitoring was done. "We didn't want to point fingers." George Gerbner, former dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication and a longtime chronicler of TV violence, agrees with the study's big-picture approach. "Anytime you give a name of a program, it lends itself to endless quibbling," he says. "The question is not what any one program does or doesn't do. The question...
Significantly, perhaps, federal courts still ban cameras of any sort. The reason, says Perm's Gerbner, is that federal judges are appointed for life. Unlike state judges, many of whom face reelection, they do not stand to gain from television exposure, however brief. As recently as last October, the Judicial Conference of the U.S. reaffirmed its stand against cameras in federal courts as an inherent threat to fair trial. Almost 20 years ago, former Chief Justice Earl Warren told Friendly, then with CBS, that televison cameras would be on the moon before they would get inside the Supreme Court...
Other researchers dispute Hirsch's study. George Gerbner, dean of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania and a leading theorist on TV's influence, calls it "interesting but flawed." Gerbner and his associates say that Hirsch misused statistics on TV watching from the National Opinion Research Center by basing his conclusions primarily on data about the heaviest and lightest viewers, who compose only 6% of those polled. Gerbner says that Hirsch is just "nibbling around the edges to discredit what is an ongoing study in the field." Perhaps the only firm conclusion possible...
Violence on TV, despite protests, does not seem to be declining. Last month Professors George Gerbner and Larry Gross of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications came out with their tenth annual Violence Profile. On the basis of a prime-time and a weekend sampling, they report that crooks still make up 17% of all television characters (vs. 1% or less in real life), and that 65% of them are involved in violence. The damage, Gross argues, does not lie in rare incitements to acts of violence, but in the attitudes and views of the world...
...Dean Gerbner suggested that such excesses might be avoided if the media delayed their coverage of terrorist attacks. "Nothing would be lost if the public didn't get the information for 30 minutes, an hour or even a couple of days...