IS IT TIME TO TAME TV? - Dexter H Faulkner - August 1976

Dexter H Faulkner

Many recent studies have assailed television aggression, violence, and immorality for adversely influencing children. But now, research shows that even adults are definitely affected by television violence. This article describes some of these profoundly significant studies and it also discusses the question, "Is it time to tame television?" By any measure, whether magnetic appeal, amount of exposure, or power to change behavior, commercial television now wields the major educational impact in the land. Does that sound like a sensational exaggeration? Then ponder these statistics: By the time the average American child reaches adolescence he will have spent twice as many hours watching television as he has sitting behind his school desk. Believe it or not, he'll have had 22,000 hours of television "instruction." as opposed to 11,000 hours worth of school instruction. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library