ABSTRACT
Children watch television. In a Time review, Richard Corliss described television as “the baby-sitter of a spoiled kid’s dreams: it promises everything, never says no and lets you change the channel if you don’t get what you want . . .” (Rushkoff, 1994). Although not everyone feels as strongly as Corliss, few people would disagree with the statement that children watch television-and lots of it. According to Nielsen reports, children watch 22 hours 11 minutes of television per week (Nielsen, 1998). It is widely recognized that by the time they graduate from high school, American children will have spent more time in front of a television than in a classroom.
