TV or not TV? Not! TV programming is designed to shepherd viewers into compromising their values. To preserve freedom, Americans should severely limit or entirely eliminate their TV viewing.(Hollywood)

In the typical American home, the television set occupies the center of the living room, as if it were the household deity. People immersed in TV's caricature of reality indulge in a delusional sense of intimacy with people they do not know--and who usually don't exist--at the expense of reelationships with the most consequential people in their lives: their parents, children and neighbors. Passive consumers of television also submit to the powers of people skilled in the use of fantasy as a means of re-calibrating public attitudes and values, not just about family life and sexual morality, but also about any other moral question of consequence.

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