From the classroom, the home and the workplace, the television industry has us right where they want us. We pay the high prices monthly. Television watching is a necessity in most people's live. Available to all, a cable network for the people. Why do people sit around and watch this? Not all television shows are "bad". Educational shows are found daily on many channels at my house. The issue to many is appropriate television for the children. Once a child has been to a friend's house, he or she has most likely played outside, played with toys, colored a picture, and watched TV.

Cable TV, with its wide variety of channel topics, has changed the way children and adults live their lives. Where as befo

and new understandings. The statistics on television in the average Americans' life is shocking, yet believable. To share just a few statistics should make a strong point. For instance, the percentage of U.S. household with at least one television is 98% The percent of children between ages 2-5 with televisions in their room are 25%. Last, the most shocking is the percentage of 4-6 year olds. This age group was asked to choose between watching TV and spending time with their fathers. The majority of the children chose television. Our society has children with television sets in their own bedrooms at the ages of 2-5. Children may tend to have trouble when they have to listen to a teacher or when reading a textbook later in school. Perhaps, they should be reading or playing with toys instead?

The television is hardly regulated; thus many influences began to pour upon society and fuse into the slow process of change which resulted in the characteristics of our present day soci

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