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TV OR NOT TV
Well, I suppose that I watch some television most days. My television watching tends to happen late at night for sort of domestic reasons and work reasons, so its restricted by that. I watch a lot of news programs. I nearly always watch the news, or current affairs programs, I’m quite a sports fan as well, so if theres any sport on I tend to watch it: cricket or football, or something like that, if Ive got nothing better to do.
I have a daughter whos six, and she watches childrens television quite often when she comes back from school. Childrens television lasts about an hour and a half. Sometimes shell sit through right from beginning to end and other times shell get bored and switch it off and go away and do something else.

o in our house the television tends to be on in the late afternoon and late at night. But Im amazed at figures that I came across recently, for example that some people may watch as much as twenty-eight hours in a week. That was in winter, I think, when the weathers bad and people are inside anyway. I dont know whether that means the time that the television is on or whether people actually watch it for that amount of time, because I think in some homes the television goes on as a kind of background and people dont actually watch it in any kind of concentrated way.
I suppose one of the things that worries me as a parent is the effect that television has on children. I dont take the same view as a lot of friends of mine who think that TV is some kind of danger to them. I think people are very inconsistent here. People never said that radio was a great danger to children, and I dont see any real difference between radio and television in that sense.
I think television can be a great benefit to children. I think there are a lot of good programs that give them good educational information, presented in a way, which is very attractive to them. For example, theres a very good nature program, which is presented in a very exciting way on television and is very good viewing, and very educational as well. And I also think televisions good for introducing children to good literature. There are often childrens stories. Good childrens stories are dramatized for television and this can often attract children to go and read the book, and I think thats a good thing.
The most dangerous thing, I think, for children on television is the commercialism, and I get really angry about television programs that are produced, which are really produced not because theyre interesting television programs but because theyre part of a big marketing exercise, so that at the same time the shops will be flooded with rubbers and pencils and bags and pencil cases and things like this and theres a tremendous pressure on children to go out and buy those things, and I think that is a very dangerous thing indeed.
The other dangerous thing, I think, for children is if the television is on indiscriminately, then they do, if parents are not careful, they do get to see programs which are not suitable for them. And I think that is a big danger. But thats up to the parents to make sure that that doesnt happen, I think.
I find it very difficult to say what would be a reasonable time to watch television. I think the important thing is not how much you watch but how selective you are. That you say, this is an interesting program and worth watching, and Ill watch it, and if there are a lot of good programs in one week, you might spend quite a bit of time watching television; another week, when the programs are not so good, far less. So its very difficult to say, what is a reasonable amount of time.

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