Television will tolerate no competition. That's why the church is ridiculed. That's why family is regularly mocked. That's why fidelity to a husband or to a wife is portrayed as ludicrous to help break down the family, so there is no competition, no higher loyalty than to that which amuses us. The influence of television is downplayed by nearly everyone except advertisers.
Advertisers know very well that TV is able to mold opinion and behavior.
Television is at war with godly manhood. Television removes men from their God-appointed stations, virtually neutering them, rendering them passive nincompoops who sit in front of a box to receive information that they're told to receive, meanwhile doing nothing with their lives. As long as Christians men especially, but women as well are locked to the TV set, we cannot take possession of the inheritance that is ours in Christ. The problem is hard to overstate. Television has become a ubiquitous narcotic that enervates an unsuspecting church.