Word: simonizes
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...hearings, however, also witnessed talk of forcing television manufacturers to place lock-out devices on all new TVs--the ongoing Congressional hearings on TV violence could lead to legislating that clamps down on broadcasters' freedom. For that reason alone, the otherwise ridiculous spectacle of Senator Paul Simon attempting to pin the savagery of guns and knives in the hands of Crips and Bloods on the likes of "MacGyver" and "G.I. Joe" should be taken seriously...
...believe Senator Simon's assertion that the TV, insidiously taking hold of one's brain, forces the hapless viewer to imitate of all the behavior depicted thereon, we may deduce from the Senator's wardrobe that it has been a long time since he watched. The idea that a man who is known more for his garish bow ties and his grotesquely proportioned earlobes may well decide what can and cannot be beamed into American households is just as frightening as America's violence problem...
...Senator Simon's performance was odd, then Ted Turner's was disgraceful. The industry's Judas, Turner pilloried broadcasters for showing violent programming. Aflame with righteous indignation, he claimed an obvious causal connection between the violence in television programming and that of America's streets...
...Vienna Simon Wiesenthal, 84, the legendary pursuer who has helped uncover scores of Nazis, is not sanguine about chasing down many of the remaining fugitives. But he argues that criminal justice is not the entire purpose of his quest. "These crimes can't really be adequately punished anyway," he says. "I see what I'm doing as a warning to the murderers of tomorrow." A warning to them, he says, "that they will never rest in peace...
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