I should begin by confessing that I belong to an organization called TV-Free America because I find television so dangerous and corrupting an influence that the best solution I can think of is to do away with it entirely. I’m also aware that the chance this will happen any time soon is zero.
Before I became a schoolteacher, I hardly thought about television at all, but a short time after I started teaching, I discovered that the kids in class who drove me crazy were always big TV-watchers. TV-addicted kids, I found, were irresponsible and childish, malicious to each other and chronically bored. They whined a lot, ratted constantly on other students, and seemed unusually dishonest.
