One Nation, Under Television And Obsession.
The rating company A. C. Nielsen, in doing its market research has compiled numbers stating the average American citizen, during a sixty-five year life will have spent just over nine full years watching a television. This can translate into nearly 28 hours of TV watching per week and up near a full two months viewing per year! A very simple indication of has become our national obsession.
United States households have the highest per-capita ownership rate in the world today, with over ninety-nine percent of them owning a minimum of one set, and holding an average of almost three sets in the home. Turning them on, (being watched or not) for nearly seven hours per day at average. When the term couch potato is used, it really is not too far off base is it?
A full sixty percent or more of the United States population is able to name all members of a comedy team like the Three Stooges comedy team, but but less than fifteen percent of the same number questioned being able to name any three Supreme Court Justices of the nine that sit on it. The modern television has been seen as an aid developmentally in this over a time frame.
The television was made commercially available in the early nineteen-thirties time frame. The first actual public broadcasts having been made from the Olympiad of nineteen thirty-six in Berlin Germany to government run stations in that city and Leipzig as well. This availed the games for viewing the first time to a nations populace. Due to sheer cost and a lack of programming, the television was not to make headway into peoples hearth and home until the mid part of the nineteen-fifties.
With the growing sales of sets, the television developed into an unmatched advertising tool as well. Broadcasters currently, use thirty percent or more of time for advertising usage. The average child in the United States alone, sees nearly twenty thousand thirty second commercials per year. The result effects manufacturers, retailers, and they base of the economy itself. Ask yourself if you would have been at that fast food outlet today if not for the children’s prodding of you, and their will to get the new toy offered with a meal.
The average American youth spends nearly nine hundred hours per year in school. Now, comparing this to the fact that the same young child is spending very near, or more than seventeen hundred hours watching a television during the same years time frame! Since the early part of the nineteen-seventies, disparity in numbers like these has been advanced very steadily. Additions of various inventions like these; the DVD, the VCR, Blu-Ray systems, DVR and the like, we are rapidly adding to the already high numbers over recent years.
The television is a valuable tool of communication, learning, and development. The over use of it as a distraction is its greatest detriment and flaw. The public needs to be aware of and try to monitor its use in more productive and responsible manner.
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