TELEVISION ADDICTION: Some thoughts on mass information consumption

	The first TV was an obscenity. 

	The second one was a crime.

	The third was an inevitability. 

	And now it seems people can't live  
	unless their TVs are near them 
	all the time. 


Melissa: I have no problem with people wasting massive amounts of time in front of 
         their tellies.

Tim: 	 (wryly) Well, neither does Big Brother.

Melissa: I like to think of television as a harmless tranquilizer that keeps many people 
         out of trouble.

Tim: 	 (nodding) It's a superb propaganda tool. And as people migrate from traditional 
         TV towards the Internet, no doubt governments will try to control that too.

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from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Reflections on boob-tube dependency and government control.
KEYWORDS: television dependency, mass media, information consumption, propaganda channels

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 1997 in Shizuoka, Japan  / Finished: 2023 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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