I have found a rather eye-opening study of the effects of television on human beings – performed by the U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare and the National Institute of Mental Health in 1972.

I’ll be mentioning Volume IV of this same report in this week’s Free Zone podcast, as Jerry Mander noted, in his 1977 book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, that the report, basically, says that the government’s findings showed “Most viewers of television programming give the programming concrete validity, as though it were not fictional.” (my emphasis)

One has to wonder at the government’s true motives in paying millions of dollars for such a study – and for who’s benefit it was really done.