Word: gerbner
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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...
...stern critic of the coverage of the Hanafi siege was George Gerbner, dean of Philadelphia's Annenberg School of Communications. Charging that the coverage was "an act of entertainment" that served primarily to boost ratings or sales of papers rather than further the public interest, he also noted that "the media cooperated with the terrorists and in so doing made their gesture more effective. It became a media event. Cameramen began covering other cameramen covering the story...
...George Gerbner, dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications, who is preparing a series of reports on TV violence for the National Institutes of Mental Health, points out that the overall amount of TV time devoted to "action" programming has not changed significantly in the past several years. But the focus of that programming has shifted from the western to the urban setting. (There are only three westerns this year, Hec Ramsey, Kung-Fu and granddaddy Gunsmoke.) "When the norm shifts to the urban and contemporary," says Gerbner, "it implies an increased preoccupation with...