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Show TV Says Bad Is More Fun What thinking Americans object to on commercial television is the fun image Projected by producers and directors among those committing com-mitting horrible crimes. FEW SOCIAL workers, clergymen, counselors, etc., expect commerical television to forego crime shows; these violent programs attract maximum audiences and that's what every producer wants to sell his show. Much could be done to lessen les-sen the harmful effects of the harmful effects of the teaching of crime to the young and impressionable, however, by ending glamorization of it. A RECENT ABC crime show depicted two holdup bums, laughing and happy, robbing a delicatessen. When one hit the owner's son over the head, the father tried to intervene and was cold bloodedly shot to death. As the two hoodlums left, one tripped over a rack of wines with the happy remark he was a beer man, himself! That's commerical--television- style (misplaced) humor! It's the wrong place , for such a line, in the worst . possible taste. NIGHT AFTER night one sees actors committing really .horrible crimes while laughing and joking and happy with results. Obviously, this acts to teach the young and impressionable crime does pay (contrary to what he is taught in the home and church). It misleads the gullible into thinking crime can be committed without remorse, soul-searching or pangs of conscience. That leads to crime-crime caused by daily brainwashing of commercial television. |