by Michael Medved

About the author: Michael Medved, formerly chief film critic for the New York Post and cohost of the television program Sneak Previews, is a radio talk show host and columnist for USA Today. His books include Hollywood vs. America and Saving Childhood: Protecting Our Children from the National Assault on Innocence.

Editor’s note: The following viewpoint was given in May 1999 as testimony before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Youth Culture and Violence.

After all the anguished conversation about media violence in the last three weeks—the Congressional hearings, the entertainment “summit conferences,” the probing TV specials, and the solemn pronouncements of politicians—will we once again shrug our shoulders, change the subject, and do nothing? Americans of...