Television is rightly termed the "idiot box"

I would say that I don’t fully agree with this, but this is simply because I’m a television lover ha-ha.  I do agree in some aspects though.  When you’re watching TV it is like an idiot box because you’re just staring at a box with a picture in it for hours on end and you usually end up losing track of time and watching a lot more TV. than you wanted to initially.  There are so many things on TV. nowadays though that you really are learning something about something on just about everything you watch.  Even watching reality game shows is good to me because you are trying to get questions right and even when you’re wrong you learn the right answer in the end.  There are some shows though that I believe hold no purpose but to simply entertain and don't expose any evidence of trying to teach.  I believe that if you could take the same person and make him/her watch television all day or make them read all day, that the version which watches television all day will initially become smarter because of the vast amount of information that comes out of a television.  If you wanted to you could actually watch something like that 70's show and maybe the discovery channel at the same time, because neither require that your fully 100% immersed into the show to get the full meaning out of it.  To finish this I will say that I am a television lover and I always will be! :)