Letters to the Editor
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Moderation is not always the best policy...
As for "rage and sanctimony", I am a tutor and encounter kids on a daily basis. I see kids with good vocabularies, good language skills, an interest in reading, good writing skills; and then, I see kids with poor vocabularies who produce ungrammatical gibberish when they try to write (even though they are native English speakers). I would much rather see more of the former and fewer of the latter. Purely from a selfish reason, mind you; an illiterate nurse who botches a medication due to poor reading skills, an illiterate teacher who cannot teach well, an illiterate government agent who cannot find the right document, and so on, all affect me directly.
If TV watching in babies - the article was about babies, not older kids - is shown to reduce vocabulary and inhibit language learning (and there is at least a correlation), there is no such thing as moderation. Just as you wouldn't let your baby smoke "moderately", drink alcohol "in moderation", or inhale "moderate" amounts of lead dust, you shouldn't let your baby watch TV.