Television Toddlers, Brainwashed Adults

Preamble: From here in our corner house, the neighbors TV has been bothering us for several years now. We would hear on TV, "Go Suck yuh mumma" and our insides would cringe with what the neighbors next door were feeding their toddlers. Now several years later, we see brainwashed adults walking around, and we suspect they were influenced by that black box. Take first look at how we see it, from our cornerhouse:

Media Babies, Tv Children, the TV Generation.

the TV Generation may be our PARENTS
Born from 1940s-1960s

That's you and I they say, we are the generation most influenced to date by foreign society through our consistent relationship with our Television set. Asking one youth she said "It is common consensus that 'everyone' during their early childhood was thrust before the TV for at lest two hours each day by a busy parent or baby sitter" If this is true then our ideas, and personality have been molded from a long time by things we see on TV. Why is this even an issue one may ask? Ok, Television influences us, sounds amazing but so what!?

Well according to David Frost, a British broadcaster, “Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home.”



Keira Salandy in our Living Room

Ken Sambury says:

So when you were younger your parents used to put u infront the tv?

Keira says:

no, I used to go for myself

Ken Sambury says:

So in general do you think TV influences young people, like you and I?

Keira says:

Yes it does

Ken Sambury says:

In what way?

Keira says:

The generation gap when it pertains to cartoons is totally different, the cartoons tend to be more rated, dan bac in de days

Ken Sambury says:

Does advertisments influence u to buy things?

Keira says:

Yes it does especially if i need it lol

Ken Sambury says: so Keira, how much of your peers lives you think are influenced by Television Media? as opposed to influence by books\parents or peers

Keira says: 75%

Ken Sambury says: Why is it that large amount? What do they do which shows this?

Keira says: Well i will say television influence the clothes and music that my friends where and listen to includin myself

As a result of such influence, the average male 21 year old may quicker splurge on chrome rims than the down payment for a house or a female may rush at the shopping mall to buy clothes and shoes she does not need as opposed to investing in her personal health or well being.

"Businesses spend billions of advertising dollars every year because they know that viewers are influenced by what they see and hear. They don’t spend that money because they think advertising might work; they know it works. It sells their products. In 2004, The Coca-Cola Company spent 2.2 billion dollars advertising its products worldwide in print, on the radio, and on television. Was the investment worthwhile? The company made nearly 22 billion dollars in profits for that year. Advertisers realize that one ad may not affect behavior. Instead, they rely on the cumulative impact of years of indoctrination." - Page 3, the October 2006 issue of the Awake Magazine.


That is food for thought.

If 30-second advertisements influence our attitudes and behavior, we may be certain that hours of TV viewing also affect us. “Beneath the most routine or trivial entertainment,” says the author of Television—An International History,“the medium operates as a subtle instructor.” Says the book A Pictorial History of Television: “Television is changing the way we think.” The question the aforementioned, Awake magazine encouraged us to ask ourselves is, ‘Does what I watch affect my thinking in the way I want it to?’
Tell us what you think below.