The www.turnoffyourtv.com website states the following: .
"In the life of children, watching television is a significant sensory experience. Many children easily spend more time with the box than they do with any other form of entertainment."5 .
With that in mind, there can be no doubt that children spend more time with the television than doing other activities, such as talking, reading, and playing, which all promote increased social and physical attributes. Television is the usurper of our time to improve ourselves.6 The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry agrees, stating that "television deters the development of imagination insofar as it obstructs the time taken out for recreation."7 .
Although laziness plays a major role in the consumption of television, mindless behavior finishes a close second. Some people talk about the "escape from reality" theme, as Marie Winn describes television's effects on society: .
As for an escape from reality, television also provides for a "passive event" for both children and adults, whereas both groups assume a quiet, non-interactive mode, in which one will remain immobile while watching television.8 .
Furthermore, children become mesmerized by the images on the screen. Why you ask? Have you ever watched television!? The fact relies on common sense, for children only have eyes for the screen. The bright colors, quick movements and sudden flashes capture the child's attention. Even though laziness and mindless behavior seem to play a major role in the promotion for "television zombies," we cannot deny the fact that violence and sex in the media plays a very key role, as one will see in the rest of the paper. .
While both lazy and "zombie-like" behavior contribute much to the argument, violence and sex play add extremely important elements as well. For example, a study done by Dr. George Gerbner at the University of Pennsylvania found that when television was compared to the real world, "crime increased ten-fold.