ABSTRACT
Concern about possible antisocial influences of television far outweighs the consideration given to any other area of children’s involvement with television. How far is the perception of the box in the corner as a ‘one-eyed monster’ justified? The possibilities that television’s examples of bad behaviour provide models to be copied by susceptible young viewers cannot be treated lightly. But the assumption, which commonly seems to prevail, that television has been demonstrably proved to have a bad influence, oversimplifies both what ‘the box’ brings into the home and how children get involved with it.
