Ridiculous

The very beginnings of TV, in my opinion, were just ridiculous. They pin pointed demographics such as women and children and did everything in their power to suck them in and make them consumers. They were relentless. I was reading this and I started to picture in my mind the scene from "Batman Forever" with the thing on top of the television that turns people into drones and then sucks all the knowledge out of them. Ridiculous, but it's how I started to picture women and children, when Spigel discusses how women would get caught up during the day and then not get anything done, or when children would come home and then just sit for hours in front of the television and not do their homework. The father might reject the coming of a television into the house because of some negative connotations, but then even he can no longer resist and falls "victim" to the television. The television industry was vicious in the beginning. It probably still is today, but we just don't realize it, or choose not to.