If, as Schwarzenegger said, seeing images of the Gulf oil disaster on TV

was enough to make him change his position on offshore drilling, then:

Would showing images of people fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan result in people changing their positions on those wars?

It makes sense to me.

I mean, that was straight from his mouth, the comment about TV.

Other than that, he's a rampaging corporate-owned asshole.

nor will they ever have another Walter Cronkite.

playing life-like video games of killing people.

Recreations and depictions of war have always existed. Explain, in specific detail, why generations watching motion pictures that had the glorification of war as their objective would not have been harmed by that, but people playing video games, which have various points of view on warfare, become murderous. It is not a rational notion at all. Seems crazy to me, in fact.
There is nothing, other than life, which is more 'life like' than the human imagination, which needs no games, no films, no nothing to live out any form of play they wish. The video games, the films, the active pretending games, all of this happens in the mind of the person.
Do you also think that watching the Food Network makes people compulsive eaters? Do those who watch the Olympics become devoted athletes? Show us how this principle of yours works in other areas. Feel free as a bird to explain. Tell us why you think your generation could tell reality from fantasy, but others can not. Them video games, we didn't have them when I were a lad, why it were all green hills when I were a lad, I tell you.

a hotel bar in Dallas, Texas waiting for a client when G.H.Bush started 'Desert Storm'. CNN was airing the live shots of missiles being hurdled into Iraq. I cried while the young men in the bar whooped it up with each strike.

to control what they reported and banned taking pictures of the coffins returning from the ME.

:nuke: