Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, April 1, 1972 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, April 1, 1972 Growingup -with television Dear Mr. Surgeon General: I read your report last night: Report to the Surgeon General from the Surgeon General's Ad- visory Committee on Televis- ion and Social Behavior. It wasn't so long ago that I couldn't fit it in between All in the Family and Moby Dick. I'm surprised that you're still trying to prove that watching violence on TV makes people violent. While you diddle around with your fancy statistics, our kids are sitting in front of their TV sets three or four hours a day soaking in all the crime and muck that the networks put out to get advertisers. I've watched my little ones go through the kind of fights they watch on the Saturday morn- ing cartoons. It's a wonder they still have everything they were born with! Johnny almost lost his left eye because Jeff hurl- ed his m a g i c "thunderbolt death ray" at him. I don't think he even realized that what he threw was his dad's golf club. So what if he does kill his lit- tle brother - he can just turn the set on next Saturday and everybody will be back again. Someday maybe his little broth- er won't. When we grew up, we saw harmless things at the pictures on Saturday afternoon like the Keystone Kops, afternoons with Captain Marvel comic books. We didn't come home from school and glue ourselves to the TV set. It was healthy stuff like racing around outside playing gangster and cowboys and ind- ians. Stickball in the streets, lifting an apple from the fruit market, smoking cornsilk in the attic. Life was action, move- ment, participation. Not t h i s vicarious dependency on the tube which we see today. Jeff went on a campout with his boy scout troop last. weekend and they had to take a battery-pow- ered TV with them so they wouldn't miss the Saturday Night Movie. You find correlations in your statistics between people who watch much violence and people who grow up to become violent. Correlation is not casuality, you say. Sure, there are deviants who will do anything you tell them to. There are adults who go out and imitate crimes shown on programs. Every society has its weak minds. But you take young child- ren who have no sense of right and wrong. How can they help but grow up into the models they see? The two-fisted loner who bucks authority, spurns the idea of settling down to make a good decent living, guns and ex- torts his way to success a n d proves his superiors wrong. Feed a whole generation on pap like this and the real world will be- come as violent and valueless as the TV world. Only the good guys might not always win. My kids have watched TV more than they've gone to school, more than they ever talk with their dad or me. We cannot shelter them, show them wha.t they need to see to be- lieve that the world is good and its order is just. How can any- body, even simple children, have faith in the world on TV where norms change from half-hour to half-hour, where life is one bat- tle against innumerable foes, where justice is the fastest gun or the perfect plan. As they grow up, their heroes change. Their idols become hulk- ing meat-eating football players or pot-headintellectuals. Name one hero on TV who is a car- porate president. Then they be- gin to watch the news, see all the bombings, deaths and de- monstrations. The corporate net- work establishment has taken over the duties of parenthood. They decide what to present and whether to present it as right or wrong. They design reality. "The corporate systems that run our lives have gone out of control. Why, it's impossible to buy a car that doesn't eat up gas, always need repairs and pollute the atmosphere. The government is our last hope. The representatives of the people. We elect them, and they should know what we need to watch on TV, what we need to have our children see to grow up normal and hardworking. Why waste your money on stu- dies? Why not put it into some organization that can control the media monopoly over in New York. Have some board that can prevent the worthless pulp that fills the screen from getting on the air. Let's have more ideal, clean, hardworking, ideal heroes, like Archie Bunk- er, Beaver Cleaver and Ed Sul- livan. But surely I shouldn't be lec- turing you. I'm only a simple housewife. As a matter of fact, I think my roast is getting over- done. -Cynthia Babbit this WORV $1.50 8:*O Arts workshop The Creative Arts Workshop in Ozone House is holding an art sale in conjunction with the cen- ter's open house on April 9. The workshop is a non-profit; organization with the purpose; of teaching and developinguartistic skills, and its facilities are open to everyone. 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