Kill Your Television

“Do you know we are ruled by TV?”
— from the poem An American Prayer by Jim Morrison

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“They put an off button on the TV for a reason. Turn it off . . . I really don’t watch much TV.”
— President George W. Bush, C-SPAN interview, January 2005

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“American children and adolescents spend 22 to 28 hours per week viewing television, more than any other activity except sleeping. By the age of 70 they will have spent 7 to 10 years of their lives watching TV.”
— The Kaiser Family Foundation

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“You watch television to turn your brain off and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.”
— Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer and Pixar, in Macworld Magazine, February 2004

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“Everybody’s got values . . . The thing that frightens me is the way that an eroding public school system . . . and television on all over the place is leading to a steady dumbing down of the American public and a corrosion of basic critical thinking in the population.”
— Jamie Raskin, American University law professor, November 2004 on the Democracy Now! radio program

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“Protestant clergy named divorce, negative influences from the media, and materialism as the three greatest threats to families in their communities.”
— from an Ellison Research study of 695 Protestant church ministers nationwide, October 2004

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“The media can wreak great harm on the family when it offers an inadequate or even distorted vision of life, of the family itself and of religion and morality.”
— Pope John Paul II, May 2004

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“When the habit interferes with the ability to grow, to learn new things, to lead an active life, then it does constitute a kind of dependence and should be taken seriously.”
— Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in the article “Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor,” Scientific American, February 2002

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