To watch OR not to watch

To Watch or Not To Watch “In the 1950’s only 10% of American homes had a television. By 1960’s the percentage had grown to 90%,” states Matt Richtel’s article in The New York Times. Televisions, video games, and computers dominate today’s marketplace. "Over the next eighteen to twenty four months, consumers will be barraged with a host of gadgets and media outlets attempting to redefine television, the web, and leisure time," states James Karney in …

…drawing and quiet activities. For the most part, parents may be unaware of how the large amount of media exposure effects their child. In order to change the decrease in reading and writing skills, parents may have to do radical things such as turning off the TV. Television is medium by which the corporate universe programs us to become something that we most probably will not be able to become for another decade or two.