The attack in Littleton has made us frightfully aware of how little we may know about our kids. It's estrangement assisted by TV, which directs programs and ads at specific age groups. Families are demographically fragmented under the same roof. What followed was a gruesome if lovingly compiled pastiche. Cars go up in flames.
Bloody victims writhe on gurneys.
Yet millions of us watched the show. And, presumably, some of us enjoyed it, whatever the depravity. TV may well have earned its place in the culture of violence, and it may well share the blame for what happened in Littleton. D.C. His primary issue with TV centers not on what we watch, but on what we don't do with our lives while we watch it. What TV-Free America prescribes is a redirection of our time and energies.