Television, a boon or a curse?

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Like most people I was unknowingly seduced by television as a young person but having developed critical faculties and lived without a tele for a long time I was interested to see how it had changed and also how my view of it had changed. Now, tele programmes are often accused of bias and that perhaps is inevitable; being human we are inclined to distort things and inescapably view them from a limited perspective. But such factual inaccuracies are open to remedy of criticism. One thing I am increasingly aware of and more concerned by is a kind of underlying set of cultural norms and ideas that are re-enforced by tele. I don't want to make some kind of conspiratorial point, programme makers reflect rather than direct cultural aspirations but rather it makes it clear that people as a whole hold rather dubious and in some cases dangerous values. Are you aware of this? all the best urban