Anytime anyone suggests that violence in movies, or in video games desensitizes the culture towards violence, the Hollywood crowd leaps to defend their craft. First Amendment and all that.
But there exists a multi-trillion dollar worldwide industry that does influence behavior through the use of moving pictures, art, photographs, sound, and words.
It’s called advertising.
Absolutely.
And if it wasn't effective they wouldn't spend hundreds of millions producing it.
Tipper Gore was right.