Letters to the Editor
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The Truth about TV
Well, I am probably disqualified from commenting, because I grew up without any TV at all as a child, barely watched it as a young adult, except for some big sports events like the Olympic Games or the World Cup, lived on a remote island for 12 years where there was only one (pathetic) TV channel, and never watch TV now except in Wal*Mart, the airport lounge, or occasionally in a hotel room.
But my observation is that the more moronic people are, the more they watch TV. Is this cause or effect? Who knows, but why take the risk and expose your children to it? It will do them no harm to read books instead of watching TV, and if you want to know what the weather will be like, look outside.
You see, what most people fail to notice is that the message is the medium. TV is about advertising, selling products, promoting brands. All else is secondary. Sure, to some extent it is also a medium for political propaganda, but the real TV message is that it is your patriotic duty as a citizen to consume goods, buy foods that are bad for you, drink beer, fly to far off places with palm trees, and, above all, to take a pill for every ill.
If that is what you want your children to learn about life, then strap them in front of the TV and prop their eyes open.