Agreed to a point. However, I’m not sure we should even quit at banning television. We should ban books as well. After all, it WAS books and philosophical treatises that caused the horrific events of the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, and by extension Marxism and the stuff Lenin pulled off (TV was not even a concept during those times, and motion pictures were barely in their infancy when Lenin took power). In particular, we should ban Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, D’Alembert, pretty much any and all Enlightenment Philosophers, plus David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzche, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, and Simone de Beauvoir, just to name a few. Make no mistake, books can be just as dangerous regarding promoting very horrific ideas and setting bad traits as TV and movies.
I don’t think the books in the French Revolution period, though subversive, were as effective as TV and today’s media.
From what I have read, back during the time leading up to the French Revolution, it was mostly the elite that read the works of Voltaire and the Enlightenment philosophers. The elite, the Jacobites, etc., in turn, stirred the masses to revolt. Today, its the masses who are subverted directly by visual means.
Who reads books nowadays? A very few. You have to put forth an effort to read a book. They get their daily dose of propaganda from something that requires no effort on their part.
Just one man’s opinion.