What is the most evil force on the planet?

[SignPost]

While the Oscar Ceremonies are taking place & movie stars are slapping each other on the back & giving standing ovations to each other, there are young adolescence living the rest of their lives in a cold jail with cemented walls, convicted of violent crimes they have committed. OR have committed suicide. What's the connection?

For as much as Hollywood influences today's culture, it's a bit surprising to realize how little connection the average person makes between movies and real life lawlessness. Psychotic movies are engineered and manufactured by sick people in Hollywood, and they should be held responsible for the psychotic forces they unleash.

It is a well known FACT that violence is a learned behavior and that movies as a medium have always had a profound influence on society, especially the young.

Their claims that "movies are simply a reflection of real life", is completely illogical. Do children really see 33,000 murders in their lifetime?... of course not.

The sad reality is that our children are being robbed of their innocence by greedy, irresponsible television executives.

TV teaches children that brutal violence is glamorous, thrilling, and accepted as part of everyday life.

According to the American Psychological Association, MTV is the most violent of all television. But in over 95 million American households, and even in some school systems, children have unrestricted access to MTV's violent, profane and sexually explicit music videos.
THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT DOES NOT GIVE GREEDY BROADCASTERS THE RIGHT TO CORRUPT THE VALUES OF OUR CHILDREN WITH OBSCENE SEX AND EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE.

The National Institute of Mental Health alone has over 3,000 individual studies that prove televised violence promotes criminally violent behavior in many children.
· By the time children reach the age of 16, they will have witnessed 33,000 murders and over 200,000 acts of violence on network TV.
· A 10-year study at the University of Illinois found that television is more crucial to a child's behavior than even their family or their social class.
· According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, television viewing causes violent and aggressive behavior in children and sends them irresponsible messages about sexual behavior and alcohol.
· Every major opinion poll - including the Gallup poll, TV Guide, Time Magazine, Parents magazine and Advertising Age - say overwhelmingly that the American people believe there IS TOO MUCH SEX AND VIOLENCE ON TV.

REASONS TO BECOME INVOLVED IN YOUR CHILD'S FUTURE:

1. Just because you turn the violence off for your child does not mean that he or she sill not be harmed by someone else who has been influenced by TV.
2. Even before completing elementary school, children see 8,000 murders and over 100,000 acts of people killing or maiming one another.
3. On Saturday morning - when young children are most likely to watch - kids see between 20 and 25 violent acts each and every hour.
4. This year, four of every five American teenagers who die will die a violent death.
5. The National Institute of Mental Health has over 3,000 individual studies which prove violence on television increases aggressive behavior in children.
6. The American Medical Association, the National Institute of Mental Health, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and the American Psychological Association all agree that TV violence makes more children become criminally violent.
7. The FBI reports that the largest number of new criminals fall in the 15-19 age bracket - the same kids who have been soaking up violence on television since they first turned on the set.
8. America is in the grips of an epidemic of violence so severe that murder has, other than auto crashes, become the leading cause of death of all people ages 15 to 24 years old.
9. Even among adults, television violence develops a sense of insecurity - what's called the "mean-world syndrome" - in each of us. It creates a feeling of being vulnerable and of needing protection.

Children who are calloused by the psychotic numbness of hollywood live in the same neighborhoods as those who aren't. What effects one effects many.

If all the combined forces of Hell should assemble in conclave, and with them all the men on earth that hate and despise God, and purity, and virtue; if all the scum of the earth could mingle with with the denizens of Hell to try to think of the deadliest institution to home, to church and state, these combined hellish intelligence gatherings could not conceive of or bring into being an institution that could come close to the already existing manufacturer of Hollywood movies. In every home in every country, 24/7.

[k am]

Dishonesty.

[Frank]

Religion

[Captain Sarcastic]

The most evil force is disingenuous propaganda and misinformation.

Which your "question" is an example of.

[Tom S]

People say that violence on TV, movies, music, and video games has no effect on people. If this is the case then why do advertisers spend countless billions trying to sell their stuff to us on TV, radio, movies, and even in video games? Why is cigarette advertising banned? Obviously because what people see on TV does influence their behavior.