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“The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.”

People Believe Facts Shows Jobs Media Television Percent Average Profit Customers Neighborhood Fewer Twelve Good Job Eighty Margins Surveys Profit Margin

Author:L. Neil Smith

“The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.”

Waiting Hours Company Watches Loneliness Television Illusion Seven Average Backgrounds Companionship

Book:Alone in America: the search for companionship

Source: Alone in America: the search for companionship

“The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn't make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can.”

Mind Children Reading Hours Levels Cutting Television Six Lows Average Currents Fourth Alphas Television Watching

Book:The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

Source: The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

“By the age of 18, the average child has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 18,000 simulated murders, on television. It is not always easy to provide clear, consistent structure for children, but providing it often helps keep children safe and helps them grow to be responsible adults.”

“The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.”

Hours Fronts Television Average Balanced Integrated

Author:Stephen Covey

“We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.”

“Dreams are more original than images we see in the media, and are surprisingly unaffected by media. For example, the average person watches several hours of television per day, yet dreams are rarely about shows we have watched or news of the day.”

Persons Shows Dream Hours Watches Media Example Television News Originals Average Average Person

Author:Charles McPhee