How do you think young people are influenced by what they see on television?

    I think that although movies or TV programs have some good aspects, they affect people and society more negatively. Children who spend a lot of time watching television tend to get lower gades. In addition, violent movies or TV programs make our society more aggressive. I feel as though we thread through our lives believing that we never have enough, where we are is not where we should be, and who we are is not good enough. 

    TV teaches us that society awards perfection, and those of us who merely scrape by are less valueable or less important than those who excel. We are taught that in order to be great, we have to do better, be more, achieve more, and have more. As a result, throughout life we actually become less and less. We don't evolve, we merely become distracted and preoccupied. WE have more things, but less time. We have success in our material world, yet we are empty inside. TV to me is time consuming and a barrier to the outside world. I just feel it robs us of precious time, the average person watches more than five hours of TV a day. That's 35 a week. If you get rid of your TV, you can reclaim this time for youself. TV often makes us oblivious to the world around us and not to mention the fact that six media corporations  run 96% of all media, that just demonstrates the illusion of choice, we are shown what they want us to be shown.