When the child is watching a television program, he or she has no innate ability to make any distinction between real and not real. The Bionic Mans's movements, his way of speaking, his attitudes, his way of relating to people, are in the child's mind no matter what we tell him about reality and unreality. The more television people watched, the more their view of the world matched television reality. We all know that advertising cannot be considered truthful. In fact, it is by nature one-sided.
Advertising always reflects only the facts and opinions of the people who pay for it.
Our thinking processes can't save us. To the degree that we are thinking as we watch television, a minute degree at most, the images pass right through anyway. They enter our brains. They remain permanently. We cannot tell for sure, which images are ours and which came from distant places.