Contends that the negative qualities of prime-time television are the impersonal products of the economics of commercial broadcasting. (GT)

Discusses, in general terms, how to survive in a hostile environment, how to work out a life for yourself when you're living in a highly urbanized, technological age in an institutionally-dominated society and culture. (TO)

Presents the observations of eight psychiatrists after watching an evening of commercial television. (RB)

Discusses many topics, including proposals to limit television advertisers' access to children; the dependence of television commercials on involuntary, mnemonic learning; the way television commercials' bypassing of rationality is aided by cognitive processing of music, rhythms, and familiar sensory events; and ideas for correcting the damage…