What s required are slogans, not thought. Therefore, treating TV like an entertainment medium is a must for Christians, and this must be followed by a discipline which parsimoniously parcels out such entertainment time. TV is a technology that competes with Christ for the final word in interpreting reality. In the single generation of its existence, TV has become the unifying center of American experience. At least one TV set is a fixture in over ninety-eight percent of American households.
TV is the most consuming leisure activity in history.
Forty to eighty million people sit in front of the tube night after night, finding their reality and interpretation from an Antichrist box. That's about four hours a day. Households of one or two people have the tube on for thirty-seven hours a week. And households of five or more have it going for sixty-one hours each week nearly nine hours per day of this intruding into a home. These numbers, quite apart from consideration of content, tell a damning story in themselves.