Were you raised by the TV set ?

Question

When you were a kid how many hours per week did you spend watching TV - ?

Do you think that has had an impact on you or your peers and if so was it a good one ?

What is this doing in politics ?

Well if the vast majority of people were raised by the TV then the owners of the TV stations are your major political infuence - Your mother and father turn out to be the owners of ABC NBC etc etc

As such they tell you and you react to them as if they were a parent figure - They more or less shaped your entire view of everything - politics incuded -

You were parented therefore by the military industrial complex that owns the majority of the media -

What real hope is there for you then ?

.:Abz:.

5 hrs a day a week a month ????

Answer 1

Well, I'm a geezer. We didn't get a TV until I was almost 16 years old....and in the remote area I lived in - programming didn't start until around 4 in the afternoon and ended by 9pm.. Didn't watch much at all.

My children only watched TV for about an hour before bedtime during "family hour", which was usually 6-7PM. On Saturday mornings, they would come in our bed and watch a few of the morning cartoon shows.... But then the TV was turned off and they went out to play. They weren't allowed to sit around and watch TV.

My grandson (who is almost 17 now) also wasn't allowed to watch TV very much. He was busy playing with his friends. And, in our family, we have always been readers...so is he.

Only lazy parents allow their kids to sit on the couch all day an watch TV - or sit around playing video games.....

Answer 2

When I was a kid? Long time ago lol. I was a kid during the 60's. I remember I watched about an hour after I got home from school, and then about 2 hours with the family at night before I went to bed. That's IF I got my homework done. So average 3 hours a day, 5 days a week. During the weekends we were always too busy, or outside playing, or some other activity that didn't make time for TV, and I'm glad of it.

I think the family TV viewing at night was a good impact. We had a very busy family, large house, about 8 of us and that was our "quality" time together during the work week. On the weekends we pretty much ignored the TV and did other things together. During summer vacation from school the TV might as well not have existed.

Answer 3

To some extent yes.
I spent at least 3 or 4 hours a day watching I think possibly more.
I would say most of the impact was good. I used to watch a lot of nature shows, cartoons, and good shows as a kid, like Little House on the Prairie etc. Also a lot of PBS and masterpiece theatre.
It probably accounts for a large part of my love of fantasy and sci fi from things like Star Trek.
I think it has also given me some warped and latent violent tendencies as I watched a lot of Twilight Zone, Chiller Theatre, Vincent Price before going to bed at night. I would usually stay up and watch them pretty late.
I used to also watch a lot of martial arts and monster movies too and Kung Fu theatre and Godzilla. Lets not forget cartoons, one of my favorites was Battle of the Planets an earlier Japanese anime.

I was not much of a kid type kid, never really understood other kids as I was reading at the level of a 13 year old in kindergarten. I also spent a lot of time reading, riding horses and hiking in the woods. I was by myself most of the time.
Now I just watch Stargate SG 1 or dvds.

Answer 4

I'm 15 and the TV is on in my house about 10 minutes a week or less. When I was a kid I watched TV a lot more--like the Simpsons, which had a good impact on my intellect and wit, and PBS shows like Mr. Rogers and Arthur. Even when I saw trashy TV I never let it affect me; generally the TV I did watch shaped the way I think now, and I'd like to think I chose my programs wisely. In general I think TV is fine in moderation. I never watched it too much, except on some occasions [basketball playoffs]. I think it just does harm when you watch too much of it, and worse, the trashy shows.

p.s. I was a reader too. My parents had a 'DOR,' or Daily Outdoors Requirement, So I was outside playing most of the time.

Answer 5

No T.V. When I was a kid it wasn't around yet. Homework by a radio that's was the same size as a small refrigerator. When it did come around the kids on the block would watch a couple kid programs then back outside to play. In those days every family on the block went to church on Sundays. I believe T.V has had a bigger impact on those 20 years my junior. They have had it all their lives. I have watched, in my opinion, T.V. turn into the babysitter and the parents. What is acceptable now would have got you thrown in jail when I was a kid.

Answer 6

I probably watched an hour a day when I was a kid. Sometimes more. My mom liked old tv shows at night and sometimes she would let me watch them with her.

As an adult I only see television if I am at a friends house.
I have a television but I dont even turn it on unless I want to watch a movie maybe.

Answer 7

I watched about 3 hours each night as a kid on 1of 2 channels, but gave up TV in 1983 or so. I fell much wiser for that descision.

Answer 8

When I was a child, I watched maybe three hours of television a week - that's a random guess at best. I do know that I was re-creating what I watched more often than I watched it! Reading was my investment... That, coupled with a few hours in front of the tube gave me many ideas to work with. Fun times. My point is, I loved watching t.v. growing up, and I wouldn't change it. However, what I watched might need a time-check.

Answer 9

When I was a kid, the media didn't report how "unsafe" it was for a child to play outside. I rode my bike, without helmet laws; I played on metal gym equipment that had been built over concrete; my curfew was whenever the streetlights came on; and I played a lot of baseball in the middle of the street. I spent most of my television watching in the morning -- MASK, Inspector Gadget, G.I. Joe, Danger Mouse...

Answer 10

A lot. But a lot of PBS. And I watched the news and news programs, even as a kid.

And I read a lot.

Even now I watch a lot of TV. I like House and other regular tv, etc, but I love the History Channel, Discovery, etc.

All together, it gave me a well-rounded view of the world.