... world affects a person for life. Childhood is a time when people are forming their beliefs about the world. When children are taught not by their guardians and environment but by television, they may become susceptible to the misleading teachings of this medium. Conditioning should be done by parents, not by a system methodically developed to deceive and trick children into developing false beliefs about the world. By the time an average person is 18, they would have spent 14 percent of their life in front of the television, showing that whatever conditioning television does to a child, they are extremely affected by it. If television represents 14 percent of a child's life, we would hope its conditioning would be positive, but the sad fact is that it's not. Young people look to role models to help figure out their feelings and how to behave. The amount of television children watch, ...

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