Tv may be less interactive, but if you stick with major networks, programs often have to be reviewed and scrutinised before being shown, whereas the major problem with the internet is anonymity. They both have good and bad points. They both have a lot of crap, but both can also have valuable information on them and can both have good entertainment.

 

They can only effect you to the extent you let them.

TV like a lot of things, is something very good in moderation. When we abuse our blessings they become malignant things. It requires self control to properly exploit such a beneficial device.

 

But since it is easier to abuse then moderate, children have an attention span of like 5minutes due to that being the increment of time from the beginning of a program to its break, and from a break to the restarting of the program after commercial break. It also damages our sense of creativity as we have all these wonderful flashing colors displayed to us physically which defeats the purpose of using of imagination to conceive such thoughts, etc.

 

As for this stupid soap operas minus the funding from soap operas (AKA reality television and drama shows) are all redundant and mediocre. I don't watch any of these ER or detective shows and they all seem the same.

 

Also, to the susceptible mind they pervert our sense of thought, instilling the disillusions of the validity of violence and bigoted distinctions between persons. As for the idiots who follow the bias medias as their sole-informers, they follow what they say without question which creates a lack of political and intellectual school diversity. For instance in my region of the USA liberalism is so heavily publicized in the media that I was watching an analysis of the need to replace an old court justice who is planning on resigning and the commentator was getting emotional and saying how the Democrats need to fight to install a Democratic justice and then the other people were saying it is such a shame how the Republicans will get 4-6 senate seats at least in November which they then went on to extol the Democratic senators and Sotomayor. Now I'm not a Republican but I wanted an unbiased analysis of the current political situation, not a brainwashing session of how the Democrats are the upholders of justice. The televised media also collectivizes and dehumanizes foreign entities. They were referring to the president of Afghanistan and Afghanistan as one in the same and they were baffled as to why the "foolish" president didn't like the American intervention. Furthermore, television is also used towards a political agenda, as I was watching Nick (I admit it :P) and there was a commercial. It went through the different types of government and it defamed all types of government (as well as dropping a cathedral with a visible cross which demonstrates a sort of anti-catholicism) other then democracy, then when democracy appeared it was exalted and everyone was cheering. The people who plan televised events set agendas from young ages to when you're old, this is not right and it encourages a homogeneous society.

 

Of course there are many benefits, but as I've mentioned its much easier to abuse then moderate.