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Comment and Life

Stop television unravelling your reality

By Michael Bond

16 August 2006

BEWARE your TV. Depending on who you listen to, it makes you more violent, increases obesity and consumption of tobacco and alcohol, encourages risky sexual behaviour and leads to greater social isolation. If you still aren’t convinced of the dangers, try this one: the way television covers current affairs so distorts your sense of reality and the risks you face that you end up living a fantasy life.

You may not realise it, but your ideas of the world and the decisions you make – how to travel, where to live – are heavily influenced by what you see on…

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