"The Church of England General Synod, in a report to a Government appointed committee deplores scenes of heavy drinking, chain smoking and casual use of obscene language and blasphemous language on TV." (Eastern Province Herald, 23rd October, 1975)
The psychiatrists, Dr. William Tompkins of the George Washington School of Medicine, and Dr. Paul Fink of the East Virginia Medical School, have been engaged in intensive research into the effect of people of television advertising. They say that TV commercials "encourage belief in mysticism by making viewers believe they can get what they want almost by magic."
Dr. Tompkins says:
"Television advertising gets us to accept nonsense and leads us to go looking for a fantasy world."
"… the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) was ticked off by the House and Senate Appropriation Committee and told to report on fresh measures to curb video violence or face ‘punitive action’."
Mr. Tindall, Director of the Audio-Visual Center of Sydney Teachers’ College said:
"Children were learning that violence is not only rampant but frequently justified."
"For years, people had been saying the good thing about TV was that it brought news to the living room. But the survey indicated that few children, if given the option, watched the news or current affairs."
"An almost unbelievable avalanche of sex, perversion, pornography, blue films, sadism, masochism, bestiality (brutality), murder, rape and brutality has flooded into the public view through the modern ‘boob tube’ of television, or the movies and lurid novels."
"In British television, almost unbelievable references to lewdness, perverted sex and depravity are as open and unabashed as news reports." (Tomorrow’s World, August 1971)