"Television - The Drug of the Nation" -Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.

Perhaps one of the most potent drugs, since television effects thought processes from childhood to the rest of adult life.

This is not to say it isn't a useful media, just that most tv watchers do not regulate themselves or affect their families' habits through any form of discourse about programs and their value to life as a whole. Jerry Springer, and all the other tabloid tv shows can have misleading and detrimental effects on people who think an intelligent forum of discussion is ripping off your adversaries' clothes after finding out they were fucking your partner.

Admittedly, there are good television networks, like PBS and TVO, who present materials which enhance life and gives proper balance necessary to be in tune with everything. The visceral primitive semiotics represented on tv, opposed to the linear process of words, both take a back seat to the internet which merges both elements through the now cliche term convergence.