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[dr_stones]

Ban TV ... I still think we'd all be better off.

[infopri]

Forget it.  It's a losing battle.  But I'd be in favor of banning about 90 percent of what they're showing these days. 

First, let's kill all the "reality" shows...

[agent210]

I Agree that there is alot of crap on tv and most of it I don't watch.

However, as a former HS teacher and now a college instructor, I think the problem is that some parents allow tv to raise their kids.

IF parents don't want to parent then they shouldn't have kids!! (thats a discussion for a difft forum)

For those of us who are responsible adults, I like having choices that HBO, Showtime and other cable channels watch. But I am an adult and don't have to monitor anyone..

[infopri]

IF parents don't want to parent then they shouldn't have kids!! (thats a discussion for a difft forum)

For those of us who are responsible adults, I like having choices that HBO, Showtime and other cable channels watch. But I am an adult and don't have to monitor anyone..

Agent210, first, I agree with you completely about parents and their kids.  Second, those are the shows I watch!  I'd be lost without HBO and F/X.  I watch almost nothing on the network channels.  (I occasionally watch a couple of the other cable channels, though.)

[francie_]

Ban TV ... I still think we'd all be better off.

Sorry, DrStones, but that particular Jeannie is out of the bottle for good.  There's no going back.  We would also need to ban the Internet, DVDs, video games, iPods, cell phones, you name it.  We are besotted with electronic eye candy, and we (as a culture, me not so much) are lovin' it. 

I understand however that Bill Gates has predicted that TV as we have known it will disappear in a decade or so.  Maybe you can find some small comfort in that thought.  Or not?

[aardvark]

I think TV causes everyone else to be bad, and I'd like to ban it for them.

But me, I love TV.  Starting with *Rome*.

[dr_stones]

So a well-placed EMP is in order ... ;)

[margomcp]

Growing up in the 1950s, I wasn't allowed to watch TV on "school nights" (except Walt Disney on Sunday night).  I think I would merely ban TVs from bedrooms/study areas. I'd get all electronics out of wherever one does one's homework/studying and set a place/time to do that so when it was time for bed (and there is no electronics in the bedroom) that's all one "could" do, sleep (and I'd put bars on my kid's windows so they couldn't sneak out :-)  Keeping electronics in the family room and/or "office" (computer and related) for everyone would make sure they didn't get out of control and so use could be monitored for kids, etc.  We have different rooms in a house for different activities; they should be used for their related activity!

[anonr]

Luddite! ;)