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Dr. James Twitchell, author of The Carnival Culture, says that in our culture "the average boy or girl will spend more time in front of the electronic babysitter by the time they are age six than they will in conversation with their father...for the REST OF THEIR LIVES.
"The average male in the United States will not read a single book cover to cover after they leave high school. The average person spends four hours a day watching television. So, if you live to be 72 years old, that's a dozen years of your life you will spend watching OTHER people become millionaires.
Zig Ziglar calls TV the "income reducer and the morality buster." Jim Rome says that "poor people have big TVs, rich people have big libraries. "Gene Roddenbery, the creator of Star Trek, was giving a commencement address at Indiana University. He said, "Television exists for one reason and one reason only. "To entertain? To inform? To educate?" No, to SELL you something." Think about it!

Comments on TV sent by Ted Janusz, Hilliard, OH on the issue,"The 23rd Channel"~

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In the United States, the TV commercial is generally considered the most effective (and most annoying) mass-market advertising format, and this is reflected by the high prices TV networks charge for commercial airtime during popular TV events. The annual Super Bowl football game is known as much for its commercial advertisements as for the game itself, and the average cost of a single thirty-second TV spot during this game has reached $2.5 million (as of February 2006).

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