It is time to recognize that the true tutors of our children are not schoolteachers or university professors but filmmakers, advertising executives, and pop culture purveyors. Disney does more than Duke, Spielherg outweighs Stanford, MTV trumps MIT. (Benjamin Barber, The Nation)

It is estimated that the average American spends more than lour hours of a day watching television. Four hours a day. 28 hours a week, 1456 hours a year. The number of hours spent in front of a television or video screen is the single biggest chunk of time in the waking life of an American child. (Hazen & Winokur. 1997. p.64)

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