Television

Television is doing irreparable harm:
Yes, but what did we use to do before there was a television? How often we hear statements like this! Television hasn’t been with us all that long, but we arealready beginning to forget what the worl was like withour it. Before we admitted the one-eyed monster into our homes, we never found it difficulty to occupy our spare time. We used to enjoy civilizedpleasures. For instance, we uses to have hobbies, we used to entertain our friends and be entertained by them, we uses to go outside for our amusements to theatres, cinemas, restaurants and sportingevents. We even used to read books and listen to music and broadcast talks ocassionaly. All that belongs to the past. Now all ur free time is regulated by the ‘google box’. We rush home or gulp downour meals to be in time for this or that programme. Qe have enven given up sittien at table and having a leisurely evening meal, exchanging the news of the day. A sandwich and a glass of water willdoanything , providing it doesn’t interference with the programme. The moster demands and obtains absolute silence and attention. If any member of the family dares to open his mounth during a programme,he is quickly silenced.
Whole generations are growing up addiceted to the television. Food is left uneaten, homework undone and sleep is lost. The television is a universal pacifier. It is nowstandard practice for mother to keep the children quiet by putting them in the living room and turning on the set. It doesn’t matter that the children will watch rubbishy commercials or spectacles ofsadism and violence- so long as they are quiet.
There is a limit to the amont of crative talent available in the world. Every day, television consumes vast quantities of creative work. That is whymost of the programmes are so bad: it is impossible to keep pace with the demand and maintain high standards as well. When millons watch the same programmes, the whole word becomes a village, and...