The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
British poet and satirist
By the time a child is eighteen years old, he or she will witness on television (with average viewing time) 200,000 acts of violence including 40,000 murders (1992).
http://www.mediafamily.org/ Fact Sheet (Huston, et al, 1992)