A Threat To Our Children?!?

Last week, countless hordes of U.S. children not only went to the movies once a week, listened to their radio favorites among 27 children’s network programs (often reading comic books and blowing bubble gum at the same time), but spent millions of kiddie-hours squinting hypnotically at the 35 shows offered them on flickering television screens.  The kiddies exhibited a leaping enthusiasm for the new and massive doses of entertainment offered by video.  Overnight, almost every little boy and girl in the nation had become a cowboy; in those carefully metered period which they spent outdoors between programs, they saw cattle rustlers around every corner.  They were not the first U.S. children to indulge in make-believe about the Old West.  But they were the first to catch the fever simultaneously from coast to coast and to demand such splendid arms and accouterments.