Pause: Eye, Mouth, Hand

Until recently the eye seemed another mouth. Everyone thought images pass through the eye to the heart as food passes through the mouth to the stomach; that the images become parts of our emotional make-up the way food eventually becomes part of our bodies.

Only in recent years has anyone tried to dispute this notion. Defenders of televised sex, violence and distortion have spoken of the eye as though it were only another fingernail: images bounce off it without ever getting inside. Television's violence merely reflects society's, they say. Television does not project violence into us.

Let's not trivialize this point of view: psychologists and government task forces have mustered numerous studies to support the fingernail…

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