Cohousing-L Mailing List: TV-Free America

[Documania (dcma]

"TV-Free America?" Am I to deduce from this that a group is seeking to rid
America of the television?

Oh, that's ducky solution! And one that works as well as "shoot the
messenger" and "treat the symptom not the problem." Sorry, but banishing TV
won't accomplish anything more than depriving millions of responsible
viewers of a good source of information, education, entertainment, and
commerce. Might even start a civil war, if not a cultural battle of
staggering proportions. Besides, America is "land of the free," isn't it?
How can we be free if we don't have choices? What gives you anti-TV folks
the right to decide that TV is no good for me or anyone else?

Sure, TV's influence is enormous and the statistics support a disturbing
negative behavior that correlates with TV watching. But it is NOT
universal, TV is NOT the sole cause of that problem, and the solution is
NOT to kill TV. The solution is to upgrade programming and/or control
access, plus deal positively with other contributing factors.

It's ironic that people so into "community" are first in line to destroy
the vehicle that has done more to make the world a global community than
anything else in history.

--Carolyn Haley