Volumes of research data show the detrimental effects of television, but I just say that television and videocassette viewing by youngsters has a significant impact on their behavior. We must not take lightly the confession of a recently executed killer on the impact pornography and violence in media had on his life. The Apostle Paul warned that men can become “past feeling … [giving] themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.” (Eph. 4:19.) In Proverbs we read, “As [a man] thinketh …, so is he.” (Prov. 23:7.) A mind exposed to violence and immorality cannot escape the negative impact of such exposure. – M. Russell Ballard, “The Effects of Television,” Ensign (CR) May 1989