TV is just like any other tool, medium etc...
Its not the Television that is the problem it is how we use it.
On one hand I think television has completely idiotized our nation into apathetic complacent celebrity worshiping drones of the slave/police state we now live in.
On the other hand, it is a great tool for sharing ideas, and bringing things to light that would otherwise take years through old fashioned media.
However, once NBC/ABC regulated television in the 50's televisions' power shifted to the hands of the few, and has stayed that way ever since. The power has, as it always will shift from the masses to the few on top. Rupert Murdoch is arguably one of the most powerful men in the world because of the television and broadcasting.
Conversely, all of the above is what makes the internet beautiful. Anyone can has the potential to literally share their ideas with the world. Unfortunately there are already motions to regulate this as most of you already know.
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