itioners, law enforcement agencies, and government representatives. Like the network on children and media violence, it aims to promote the exchange of information and co-operation among groups concerned with child rights. It plans to broaden its membership to include parents associations, teachers, and other civic groups. THE AIM OF EDUCATION IS to make people active and critical thinkers. Are you critical enough in relation to the media surrounding your daily life? Ultimately, this is the only way that a young person can grow up to be an informed and active citizen in a democratic society. Children educated to analyze media content learn to recognize the contradiction between their taste for violence on television and their rejection of it in real life. Media education also allows children to become active producers of media content, to learn the methods and language of the media, and to use it in a healthy way as a vehicle way as a vehicle for their own self-expression. RESOURCES The Web site of the UNESCO International Clearing House on Children and Violence on the Screen is http://www.nordicom.gu.se/unesco.htm The killings in the Littleton, Colorado high school have sparked a wave of soul-searching over whether the entertainment industry is partly responsible for creating a "culture of violence." Predictably, there are also questions about the meaning of the First Amendment. Can there be too much of a good thing? Does the First Amendment really protect all the blood and gore that is splattered on our TV and movie screens? The simple answer is "Yes." Of course the First Amendment protects violent imagery. Otherwise, think of all the things that would be vulnerable to censorship: the Bible, the Iliad; Agamemnon, Faulkner’s Light in August, and James Dickey’s Deliverance; films such as Schindler’s List, Paths of Glory, and Apocalypse ...
