Television influences the quality of reading material a child selects. Instead of reading great classics, the child hooked on television prefers more simplistic fare. The very nature of television makes it less stimulating to children than reading. Since television requires little concentration, it has a negative effect upon a child's ability to comprehend what he reads. The failure to develop concentration skills will lead children to read words but not understand what the words are saying.
Comprehension is always impaired when children have difficulty concentrating.
The television will capture a child's mind by preventing him from developing his inner-visualization and interpretive skills. The strong visual impressions made by television influence a child's mind to conceptualize the pictures, actions, and inferences of a given television program within the framework of the producer's view of life. Television forces the program producer's images of people and events upon the viewer. The reader forms his own images of people and events. But when the television is returned, reading immediately diminishes to its prior state.