Kill Your Television TurnOffYourTV.com
Kill Your Television TurnOffYourTV.com
"Do you know we are ruled by TV?"
-- from the poem An American Prayer by Jim Morrison
"They put an off button on the TV for a reason. Turn it off
. . . I really don't watch much TV."
-- President George W. Bush, C-SPAN interview, January 2005
"American children and adolescents spend 22 to 28 hours per week
viewing television, more than any other activity except sleeping. By the age
of 70 they will have spent 7 to 10 years of their lives watching TV."
-- The Kaiser Family Foundation
"You watch television to turn your brain off and you work on
your computer when you want to turn your brain on."
-- Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer and Pixar, in Macworld Magazine,
February 2004
"Everybody’s got values . . . The thing that frightens
me is the way that an eroding public school system . . . and television on
all over the place is leading to a steady dumbing down of the American public
and a corrosion of basic critical thinking in the population."
-- Jamie Raskin, American University law professor, November 2004 on the Democracy
Now! radio program
"Protestant clergy named divorce, negative influences from the
media, and materialism as the three greatest threats to families in their
communities."
-- from an Ellison Research study of 695 Protestant church ministers nationwide,
October 2004
"The media can wreak great harm on the family when it offers an inadequate
or even distorted vision of life, of the family itself and of religion and
morality."
-- Pope John Paul II, May 2004
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