Von Bakanic, a sociology professor at the College of Charleston, said the correlation between television (and, by extension, other visual media) and violence has long been observed by researchers.
A Canadian study in the 1970s compared children raised in a small town without television with those with regular exposure to television and found substantial differences, Bakanic said.
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2012/mar/11/are-todays-children-growing-up-too-fast/
