Beware Of Television

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is easy or less than interesting, and slow
down when it is difficult or enthralling. He can put down the book for a few
moments and cope with his emotions without fear of losing anything.
Unlike reading, the pace of the television experience cannot be
controlled by the viewer; he cannot slow down a delightful program or speed up a
dreary one. The images move too quickly. He cannot use his own imagination to
invest the people and events portrayed on the screen with the personal meanings
that would help him understand and resolve relationships and conflicts in his
own life; he is under the power of the show creators' imagination. He becomes a
passive consumer of the TV production; like drugs or alcohol, the television
experience allows the participant to blot out the real world and enter into a
pleasurable and passive mental state. Like an addict, he puts off other
activities to spend hour after hour watching TV and finds television almost
irresistible.
Television affects ...

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