As children use TV to learn about the world in which they live they use what they see as a model for how to interact with other people. They will seek to entertain or to be entertained. If we abuse TV we will become superficial, uncritical and easy to manipulate. Speed Unlike printed media, TV fully controls the speed at which users have to interact with it. We can read a newspaper article slowly or quickly, pause whenever we like and we can scan the pages in any order, but we can't slow down our TV screens for even one second.
TV makes our lives busy, just like time tables, schedules, deadlines.
Our life is on fast forward. The viewing experience of TV is quite unlike the natural world. Something always happens. A typical Hollywood movie has about 30 cuts per minute, orders of magnitudes faster that only a few decades ago. A program can never afford to slow down, to be less intense, or viewers might reach for their remote controls.