The movie "Network" may be 30 years old, but it is the most accurate description of how influential TV was, is, and always will be.

Television is not the truth...Television is a circus,  a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players.  We're in the boredom-killing business...

...We deal in illusions, man.  None of it is true!  But you people sit there, day after day, night after night...We're all you know.  Your beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here!  You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal...

   Things are much worse today.  The Nielsen Media Research reported that, for the first time, American homes have more TVs in them than people.  The survey of 25,000 people found that the average household has 2.73 television sets and 2.55 people per household.  The average American household tuned in to television an average of 8 hours and 14 minutes each day during the 2005 - 2006 viewing season, which is also a record high.   

   Television is being shoved down our throats everywhere we turn.  I see them in waiting rooms, in individual rooms at the dentist, in elevators, restaurants, several makes of vehicles have them, and of course we have the portable versions that go everywhere in between.  

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