[gobucks]

"Children from upper socio-economic strata were even more negatively affected than those from the middle class or lower class."

Well, we now know why we see so many liberals on TV ... they grew up in front of them, and were doomed to end up being on them...

Seriously, certain things w/i this article are quite worthwhile to learn, despite the length. The sleep and metabolic information was brand new to me ...

Clicking to the whole article takes you to a conservative Jewish website; this article was one of many regarding protecting kids.

[Hessian]

Just wait til they figure out what the internet does to you....

[Incorrigible]

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

[SaveTheChief]

It's not called the boob tube for nothing.

[wizardoz]

Brazelton hooked newborn babies up to electroencephalographs and then exposed them to a flickering light source similar to a television but with no images. Fifteen minutes into their exposure, the babies stopped crying and produced sleep patterns on the EEG, even though their eyes were still open and observing the light.

I bet staring into a campfire has the same effect. I know that when I stare into a fireplace, or campfire, I zone out completely. It's like being hypnotized, and I'll stare at it for two solid hours without a conscious thought in my head. That's pretty scary.

[Boiling point]

I'm sure its all the subliminal messages the left wing media implants into the programming. (Welfare is your friend, no need to succeed, competition is bad.) oh wait! thats the public school system.

[glasseye]

I turned my TV off 8 years ago.

Klintoons reelection made me so sick of the medium, I really do owe slick a debt of gratitude.

[narses]

Shoot your TV!

[twin2]

Thought you'd like to see this..

[briant]

Of course, television is not the only threat to our children's development. It is but one especially noxious example of the sort of danger we are now capable of identifying and avoiding. We might also detect problematic aspects of Walkmans, Gameboys, and computer games. Even media like the internet take on a different appearance when viewed from this perspective. Each of these educational challenges demands our attention.

These comparison are not good in that they are all more interactive than television.

[King Prout]

chronic understimulus plus synaptic pruning = loss of intellectual capacity

easy math, and I have been saying it for years.

[longtermmemmory]

But what does FR do to the IQ?

(hint Bush's 5% majority is part of it)


Dare we say it frees one from the shackles of the MSM.

[Cold Heat]

DUH.................

[Neanderthal]

This article says that watching TV makes you stupid. This might be wrong and the opposite true:

Stupid people like TV more than smart people do. The test results would look exactly the same if this were the case.

TV and stupidity are correlated but this does not mean that TV causes stupidity. Stupidity might instead cause TV-watching.