Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Historical Study B-37, "The Baroque: Forms of Authority in 17th-century Europe," is vanished with much-mourned Simon M. Schama, who has moved to Columbia University...
Even assuming for a moment that TV does wield the incredible influence Senator Simon and his intellectual cronies claim, the result would hardly be wanton violence. TV may be violent, but on TV the bad guys always get killed in the end and murderers are always uncovered...
...Senator Simon, Mr. Turner and their boosters to claim that TV causes random violence, they must plumb the depths of cynicism. Young people do perceive "the violent message" of television, but they are too stupid to absorb anything else, even if it is just as obvious. This comes from men of a generation, which relies on its children to operate its VCRs...
...Senator Simon really wants to look at atrocious behavior on TV, he needn't go far. He should turn to C-SPAN. From the thievery of the House Post Office, to the gratuitous sexual overtones of the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, C-SPAN is a virtual moral dunghill. What sort of an influence must such depravity have on the viewer...
...think Senator Simon would agree that C-SPAN should carry a warning: "This network depicts graphic hypocrisy, moral turpitude and duplicity. Viewers should be aware that this is ONLY the United States Congress. You should UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES imitate such behavior in real life...