Assignment: It will rot the brain

The Emmys broadcast Sunday night and that means the beginning of the new television season. That’s right we’ve got our old favorites: House, Heroes, Gossip Girls, The Office, Survivor, CSI, NCIS, The Mentalist, et.al., along with some new hopefuls: Glee, The Good Wife, Eastwick, Community, and Flashforward. So what are your thoughts on TV? What show do you love? What show do you hate? Is TV a wonderful form of entertainment, social commentary, crafted silliness creating a diversion at the end of the day? Or is TV fundamentally something more insidious: the delivery system for advertising product to a mass audience? Can it be both? Take a look at some of this: http://www.csun.edu/science/health/docs/tv&health.html

http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/ check out the links at the bottom

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/elementary/?article=toomuchtv

I love me my TV—does that make me a bad person?

What are your thoughts?