All your opinions and everything you think.....

According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (or 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube.

I. FAMILY LIFE
Percentage of households that possess at least one television: 99
Number of TV sets in the average U.S. household: 2.24
Percentage of U.S. homes with three or more TV sets: 66
Number of hours per day that TV is on in an average U.S. home: 6 hours, 47 minutes
Percentage of Americans that regularly watch television while eating dinner: 66
Number of hours of TV watched annually by Americans: 250 billion
Value of that time assuming an average wage of S5/hour: S1.25 trillion
Percentage of Americans who pay for cable TV: 56
Number of videos rented daily in the U.S.: 6 million
Number of public library items checked out daily: 3 million
Percentage of Americans who say they watch too much TV: 49


II CHILDREN
Approximate number of studies examining TV's effects on children: 4,000
Number of minutes per week that parents spend in meaningful
conversation with their children: 3.5
Number of minutes per week that the average child watches television: 1,680
Percentage of day care centers that use TV during a typical day: 70
Percentage of parents who would like to limit their children's TV watching: 73
Percentage of 4-6 year-olds who, when asked to choose between watching TV
and spending time with their fathers, preferred television: 54
Hours per year the average American youth spends in school: 900 hours
Hours per year the average American youth watches television: 1500


III VIOLENCE
Number of murders seen on TV by the time an average child finishes elementary school: 8,000
Number of violent acts seen on TV by age 18: 200,000
Percentage of Americans who believe TV violence helps precipitate real life mayhem: 79


IV. COMMERCIALISM
Number of 30-second TV commercials seen in a year by an average child: 20,000
Number of TV commercials seen by the average person by age 65: 2 million
Percentage of survey participants (1993) who said that TV commercials
aimed at children make them too materialistic: 92
Rank of food products/fast-food restaurants among TV advertisements to kids: 1
Total spending by 100 leading TV advertisers in 1993: $15 billion


V. GENERAL
Percentage of local TV news broadcast time devoted to advertising: 30
Percentage devoted to stories about crime, disaster and war: 53.8
Percentage devoted to public service announcements: 0.7
Percentage of Americans who can name The Three Stooges: 59
Percentage who can name at least three justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: 17

Compiled by TV-Free America
1322 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Has been HEAVILY swayed by the media.

Who you think is pretty.

Who you hate.

Who you vote for.

All your prejudices.

Damn near every perception you have of your current existence has been manipulated.



Turn off your TV, it is corrupting your mind.

TRUTH!!!!!!

It started with parents I am afraid and this getting clean with oneself may get yourself cut from your broader sense of family.
Your environment may not understand.
You can throw away TV but it is only a first and superficial step into regaining your OWN insight.

Number of murders seen on TV by the time an average child finishes elementary school: 8,000

Has been HEAVILY swayed by the media.

Who you think is pretty.

Who you hate.

Who you vote for.

All your prejudices.

Damn near every perception you have of your current existence has been manipulated.



Turn off your TV, it is corrupting your mind.

First off, your logic is flawed. Only the mindless are controlled by the TV. According to TV, who really is pretty? Who do I hate? Who will I vote for? What are my prejudices? You can NOT answer for you have NO knowledge of me and how I think. Only an asshole swears by something they do NOT know. I enjoy watching the History channels, Discovery and Science Channels. I never watch the news, both local and network. I never watch MTV, VH1. I think my granddaughter is the prettiest person on Earth. Why, because I pay attention to her, not what someone else has decided that I have to watch. Who do I hate? I hate everyone that is so self-centered that they would rather have someone else do all of their thinking because they are just too damn good to think for themselves. Who would I vote for? The person most in agreement with how I feel, and what I think. Who am I prejudice against? Anyone, and everyone who says that I am wrong for still believing in the Constitution, anyone who tells me that I have to accept other peoples opinion that have no respect for my opinion. Telling me that I have to accept a perversion of my belief, simply because they think it is their right to demand I accept them without question, even though they refuse to accept any opinion of mine. TV is not the problem, stupid asshole people who wont keep their noises out of other people business is the problem.

You should not forget however than many may throw away their TV just to replace it by for instance GLP mentality after a while. It is replacing a drug by another one if one does not understand the point of all.

Internet is too as much as a drug as a source of information. What you read makes what you think.

Has been HEAVILY swayed by the media.

Who you think is pretty.

Who you hate.

Who you vote for.

All your prejudices.

Damn near every perception you have of your current existence has been manipulated.



Turn off your TV, it is corrupting your mind.

Very true OP!

I like to even go farther and call it the multimedia complex.
(TV, Radio, Newspapers, and magazines)

It is the strongest control mechanism the elite posses. Next to religion.

The internet is a bit harder to control because you can choose what to view all over the world. You can choose to be controlled OR the controller of your own thoughts and choices.

YOU always have a choice to learn and take the power back!



This only breaks the ice as far as the control mechanisms go. Words and symbols that we see in day to day life also act as control mechanisms. When you choose to learn and study what they are trying to do with the symbols, You realize the less of an effect they have on you.

Good mornin' Rev-

Your words are true.

People's minds have been weakened; they are undisciplined by many factors.

I ponder this:

Are they just on their own path and should be left to figure it out themselves?

or

Do we step in to deliver the message, not concerning ourselves with the result?

or

Make a point to make sure the point is understood?

my pee pee hurts

I have a feeling none of it will matter 6 months from now, but for what it is worth.


1. If I can help "enlighten" someone, I think I should try.

2. I have done this with family members. Lucky for me, I have a "good reputation" in my family and they are willing to listen to me. Once someone starts to see the facts and listen to logic, it is hard for them to deny it.

3. I dont worry about making a point to see if I am understood. I figure, if I can deliver the message without attacking the person, then I will let fate take its course.

You're a good soul Rev.

Blessings back to ya Rev...



I get that a lot, but I'm a woman :)

Has been HEAVILY swayed by the media.

Who you think is pretty.

Who you hate.

Who you vote for.

All your prejudices.

Damn near every perception you have of your current existence has been manipulated.



Turn off your TV, it is corrupting your mind.