The Poison Box

IF WE TRULY THOUGHT THAT TV HAD NO IMPACT, WOULD WE BE SPENDING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON ADS?
Child and family professor, Dr. Greer Fox (Tennesse Alumunus, Spring 1994)

POWER RANGERS

A teacher says: " I asked one of the boys in class: " Who is the most powerful, Allah or the Power Rangers ? " He exclaimed with certainty : " The Power Rangers!" When I told him that Allah was the Most Powerful the boy was greatly disappointed.
WHO WINS THE HOURS STAKES?
According to Baehr, ex-director of the Television Centre at City University of New York, the average child watches, by age 17:
15 000 to 40 000 hours of TV;
he goes to school for about 11 000 hours; and
spends only 2000 hours with his parents. (Hollywood Reporter, March 1994)

MURDEROUS
TV models cruelty and violence. By the time he is 17, the average child sees:
200 000 to 400 000 sex acts on TV
17 000 to 33 000 murders.
A survey conducted by US group, Children Now, found that sex on TV encourages kids to have sex before they are ready.
IS ANY OF THIS NEW TO US? IN OUR HEART OF HEARTS WE KNOW THE INFLUENCE OF TV.