BBC deceptions and hidden agendas - today many broadsheets worldwide featured factual report with serious findings - but the BBC chose "knocking copy" produced on request by a tame expert - without telling us that the `tame expert' is on the BBC payroll, representing the interests of shoddy media making money from on-screen violence Below this long report - extract from BBC's propaganda page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Study finds TV time yields violence Hours of viewing in childhood tied to teen aggression By Suzanne C. Ryan, Globe Staff, 3/29/2002 One of the most comprehensive studies on the possible effects of television viewing by adolescents concludes that teenagers who watch more than one hour daily may be more prone to violence than others in their late teens and early 20s. For years, specialists have suggested that watching television can lead to violent behavior. Few of the earlier studies, however, followed children for more than a year. The report, appearing in today's issue of the journal Science, tracked 700 children over 17 years. The study was conducted by researchers at Columbia University, the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. The researchers found that television-watching boys, in particular, were more likely than girls to engage in aggressive acts later in life, most commonly in the form of assaults and fighting that led to injuries. Violent behavior by girls in the study included robberies and threats of harm. The report said the link between watching television and behaving violently was consistent even after researchers accounted for other factors that might be responsible for violent behavior, such as childhood neglect, low family income, or a psychiatric disorder. `Our findings suggest that, at least during early adolescence, responsible parents should avoid permitting their children to watch more than one hour of television a day,' said Jeffrey Johnson, a coauthor of the study and an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia. `That's where the vast majority of the increase in risk occurs.' He said that prime-time programs contain three to five violent acts on average in an hour, while children's shows contain an average of 20 to 25 violent acts per hour. Among 14-year-olds who watched less than an hour of television daily, 5.7 percent were involved in aggressive acts by ages 16 or 22, the study found. For those who watched from one to three hours the aggression rate jumped to 22.5 percent, and the rate was 28.8 percent for those who watched three hours or more, it found. The effect was most pronounced for boys, with rates of 8.9 percent committing aggressive acts for those who watched less than an hour of TV at age 14, 32.5 percent for one to three hours, and 45.2 percent for those watching more than three hours of television. For girls the rates were 2.3 percent, 11.8 percent, and 12.7 percent. L. Rowell Huesmann of the University of Michigan said he was impressed by the findings. `Children who grow up watching more TV violence are at increased risk for aggressive and violent behavior in young adulthood' Huesmann said. The study involved 707 families with children between the ages of 1 and 10, randomly selected from two counties in northern New York. Interviews with these families were conducted in 1975, 1983, 1985-86, and 1991-93 to note TV-viewing habits. The children were given questionnaires up until 2000 to document any aggressive behavior. Data were also obtained from arrest records and charges of adult criminal behavior with the state and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Material from the Associated Press was included in this report. This story ran on page A2 of the Boston Globe on 3/29/2002. © Copyright 2002 Globe Newspaper Company. www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/088/nation/Study_finds_TV_time_yields_violenceP.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------- However, the BBC ran a different headline - QUOTE Friday, 29 March, 2002, 00:34 GMT "TV violence link disputed" (headline) "However, this finding is disputed by a UK expert, who describes the study as `flawed' ... British expert Guy Cumberbatch, from the Communications Research Group, based in Birmingham, said that the study findings were `highly misleading'" UNQUOTE news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1899000/1899408.stm However, a fact they concealed was that Cumberbatch is on the BBC's payroll. -- For other `clients' of `expert Cumberbatch' see CRG clients (www.crghq.com/) The Independent Television Commission The European Leisure Software Publishers Association Various public relations agencies including Countrywide Communications ---------------------------------------------------- www.perceptions.couk.com/no-tv1.txt www.perceptions.couk.com/no-tv2.txt More evidence of BBC propaganda and lies about TV damage www.perceptions.couk.com/violence7.txt www.perceptions.couk.com/beebvbeeb.html ---------------------------------------------------- check BBC editorial corruption:- BBC's `political' lies - www.perceptions.couk.com/crapbbc.txt BBC's racial lies - www.perceptions.couk.com/demrace-bbc.html BBC's religious lies - www.perceptions.couk.com/propmail.txt BBC's economic lies - www.perceptions.couk.com/govprop.txt BBC's tax lies - www.perceptions.couk.com/taxone.html#liar BBC's tax libel - www.perceptions.couk.com/manip.html ------------------------------------------------- FURTHER REFERENCES GO - "search perceptions" - in SEARCH-ENGINE file-ID www.perceptions.couk.com/violence7.txt