TV Should Lead Push to Reduce Violence

[Commentary] Twenty-seven killed, including 20 children. As President Barack Obama said: “We have been through this too many times.” By the end of this week, National Association of Broadcasters President Gordon Smith, National Cable & Telecommunications Association President Michael Powell and Motion Picture Association of America President Christopher Dodd have to sit down to figure out what they can do to help curb the gun violence like that in Newtown (CT) that stunned the nation. They have to pledge that the TV business is going to step up and become part of what should be a national, multipronged effort to stop such killing. (Dodd, a former Connecticut senator, should also rally the movie industry to the cause.)