Spot on indeed!
Can I get an "AMEN"?
AMEN!
Yeah, I don't even own a TV folks. Don't have one in my flat. I see enough of that twaddle at my gf's place. SHE turns it on when she gets up and leaves it on until she falls asleep in front of it.
"A generation lost in space..."
Well, I have a friend who says he has a few sound cards laying around. Sometime soon I might have sound on this computer. Then, I will listen to these utube newreels and stuff.
But, I stopped watching TV at home a few years ago. It distracted the creative process. But, I have never been into it much. Even as a kid of the "TV Generation" I didn't like itmuch, preferring to be outdoors unless the weaather was bad. I wrote, made up plays with friends played like a kid, asked tons of questions and made up a bunch of lies, (may be lived in my own fantasy world a lot).
Therefore, I grew up to be very different than my counterparts.
There is a theory saying, that the advent of TV to a community casues things like smaller family size and defiance of order within the family.
I remember the studies showing violence shown to children causes similar violence in the said child. Is that study still in existence?
Hmm.... Is there correlation between real violence and a violent show on TV in the eyes of a child? I'd like to see that study.
Well, I have a friend who says he has a few sound cards laying around.
Hopefully you will get a sound card soon. The videos sure will make a lot more sense 
There are studies that show a correlation between violence on TV and children's behaviour,here is one...
http://www.apa.org/releases/
medi...a_violence.html
But you won't find me giving them that much credit here. I think that there are much more likely correlations between a child's violent behaviour and its cause than watching something on TV. Bad parenting would be high on my list.
This video is aimed more at adults and how prone they are to consider TV as a representation of reality. The frightening number of people that gain 'all' their information from television. Those that don't read books or newspapers or check the facts out for themselves, hence relying solely on the TV to paint a picture of how the world really is.
Scary... Especially if the TV channel of choice is 'Fox News'!
My favorite use of the TV media was when we invaded the Middle East a few years ago.
The reporter would be at some high elevation, like a few stories above the ground, on a roof top or something. There would be anticipation of the viewer for a certain in the know reporter awaiting hookup with us all back home.
We, the viewing public would be waiting, anticipating real footage, only to see some clouds, a wind blown reporter and a mic.
The sublimial message being, "This is too scary for you over in the US to see, so I'm up here high above the fighting in order to keep you all from seeing shooting or looting or blood at all."
Truer word were never written...
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