Way back in 1977, Jerry Mander published a book entitled Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. In the book, he asserts:

1. While television may seem useful, interesting, and worthwhile, it actually lays the foundations for autocratic control by altering the physical and mental reactions of viewers to their environment.

2. By setting up an “information gate”, access to which is controlled by a few global corporations, reality is distorted in the favor of those who set up those gates.

3. Television affects the minds and bodies of those who watch it, which results in political changes favorable to those who control the medium.

4. Television has no democratic potential. It confines all human understanding to a very limited domain.

Now that Obama has sold the American worker down the river, yet again, tell me that television had nothing whatever to do with his actions.

Watch the following video and then go to the library and pick up Mander’s book.