i love jay penske for thinking of this idea. host: let's go to the phones. gerald in newcastle is our first caller. -- cheryl in newcastle is our first caller. caller: i call myself no pta mom. many years ago i chaired -- an old pta mom. many years ago i chaired the pta council. at the time, the national pta had developed a wonderful national program looking at violence in video games and on television and in the movie industry. when sandy hook happened, and of course, for many years i've worked with children and for the last 25 years as an advocate in my job i work for children, so what happened at sandy hook especially touched me. it was the most extreme case as far as what we have seen in our culture here in america. i talked to my friends and said, is no one listening -- was no one listening 25 or 30 years ago when we were talking about the fact that we were just becoming more and more accepting of the violence in our culture? i know joe lieberman and a few other senators for years sponsored a conference out and washington, d.c. on violence in video game

i love jay penske for thinking of this idea. host: let's go to the phones.d in newcastle is our first caller. -- cheryl in newcastle is our first caller. caller:guest: i call myself no a mom. many years ago i chaired -- an old pta mom. many years ago i chaired the pta council. at the time, the national pta had developed a wonderful national program looking at violence in video games and on television and in the movie industry. when sandy hook happened, and of course, for many years i've worked with children and for the last 25 years as an advocate in my job i work for children, so what happened at sandy hook especially touched me. it was the most extreme case as far as what we have seen in our culture here in america. i talked to my friends and said, is no one listening -- was no one listening 25 or 30 years ago when we were talking about the fact that we were just becoming more and more accepting of the violence in our culture? i know joe lieberman and a few other senators for years sponsored a conference out and washington, d.c. on violence in video games.

we were having a meeting, talking about moving forward because we have a new owner, jay penske, who bought us in october. he is a great guy. this was a few days after the sandy hook shootings. we were -- had a lot of territory to cover. really important stuff. what are we doing with our website, the print version, what are we doing -- people were kind of distracted by sandy hill. a couple of the parents were talking about worrying about their kids at school. and jay had this light in his eyes and said let's do an issue on violence. just violence. and we'll cover it from every aspect of the we'll get everybody to weigh in. both sides of the issue. i mean he -- in 35 seconds evolved the whole issue. in january tied in with martin luther king day, we put out this issue. it's 80 pages. jay wanted no advertising because he said i don't want this to be a version venturement don't want people to think we are making money or capitalizing on this. we wanteded to get people in the industry to think because these are the people, our readers are people who are in the industry. they are responsible for