Television..........

"Television exists for one reason only."


Do you know what it is?
Not entertainment, education, or escape.
It's to SELL you something....
The rest of it is just a reason to get you to watch the advertising.....

According to A.C. Nielson Company, the average American watches 4 hours of television a day.
That's two months out of every year. 
And if you live to be 72 years of age, that's a dozen years of your life you'll spend watching OTHER people become millionaires.


Zig Ziglar calls television "the income reducer and the morality buster."


Dr. James Twitchell, author of Carnival Culture, says that in our culture, by the time a person is six years old, the average boy or girl will spend more time in front of the electronic
babysitter than they will in conversation with their fathers - for the rest of their lives....


I just recently found this out about television:
During situation comedy shows, the producers kick off a laugh track every ten to fifteen seconds.
Do you know that people don't really laugh like that anymore?
Do you know where they recorded that laughter, by and large?
From people watching the Red Skelton Show live back in the 1950s. (There was no dialogue to interrupt their laughter.)
So, in other words, those people you hear laughing during those sitcoms of today... they're dead!


From CrazyAboutTV.com:
"In the final comedy sketch of most episodes, Red Skelton would perform mute. 
The only noises were sound effects and the audience's laughter and applause. 
Only one guest star (Groucho Marx) ever appeared during that sketch. 
For several decades, the audio from those Red Skelton Show segments was used as the
laugh track for most other TV comedies and it is sometimes used to this day!"

Shalom