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Tribune staff reporter Maureen Ryan’s inventory of “6 ways TV is changing your life” (Arts & Entertainment, May 1) contains some omissions. Here are six more ways TV is changing our lives:
– Accelerating the obesity epidemic.
– Contributing to attention deficit disorder.
– Normalizing gratuitous sex and violence.
– Creating endless desires and poor self-esteem.
– Taking up time once spent socializing with others or being creative.
– Deterring us from actively living our own lives as we passively watch strangers live theirs.
Television will effect a truly fulfilling, positive change in our lives only when we decide that it is time to turn it off for good.
