The New York Times notes that a compendium of various studies on the subject published in a report concludes that "use of media" by children correlates very strongly with adverse health effects. Seems relatively straight forward. But how to curb media use? Haranguing people about how watching TV is bad doesn't yield particularly impressive results, plus you run the risk of annoying the fuck out of people, thereby losing all of those unhealthy friends you got. My idea is this: if you're a philanthropist, pay off television writers to write shows that are so bad, no one will want to watch them, thereby leading them to curb their "media use".
Another interesting possibility is that someone is already doing this.
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