Re: No Tv
Jimmy Of York, on host 204.215.203.52
Saturday, June 10, 2000, at 09:07:36
Re: No Tv posted by Darien on Friday, June 9, 2000, at 23:36:56:
> I've not much to say about this subject, except that TV will neither make nor break your life. I don't understand how people can think of television as something that controls them, and I've never bought into the idea of "I had no say in the matter - television made me what I am." Extend that argument a bit (okay, maybe more than a bit) and you get to people who say that playing Doom makes kids go on gun rampages. Honestly, now. I agree with Sam, in that television does provide something to do to the exclusion of other things one could do - that's more or less a tautology. But I don't believe that telvision turns kids into reclusive, antisocial underachievers - people are responsible for their own behaviour. No blaming the television for how you did or didn't turn out.
Well, I wasn't trying to blame TV, I was basically trying to blame my parents :-) . I think TV makes it easier for parents to not interact with their children nearly as much, and I think that's what I was trying to say.
Jimmy O"As long as it wasn't MY fault..."f York
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