This interesting article describes how one family gave up their television more than 10 years ago,and I can empathize with their choice because I once chose to do thesame the thing. In fact, it was several years after George Bush won hisfirst presidency before I ever saw him speak. Although I obtained cableTV service a few years back, the primary purpose was to get my highspeed internet service (the price was the same with or without cableTV).
I believe the average American watches 3-4 hours of TV per day, but I don't personally know anyone who would ever admit it. However, that's nearly a month's worth of TV time for me. More than 90 percent of my TV time is spent watching health videos I need to review.
As the article discusses, it is very clear the powers that be areusing television to influence the minds of the public for their ownpurposes. Fortunately, we have access to the Internet and people,especially many younger folks, are radically decreasing their TV timeand shifting over to the Web which is far more difficult for theinterests for the powers that be to control.
The greatest argument for limiting your family time in front of a television: The completely adverse effect it can have on your child's health and, specifically, preventing the spread of childhood obesity.
LewRockwell.com