"
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.