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Television has long been attacked by the great and good for shortening attention spans, morphing peoples’ eyes into a square shapes {no evidence} and one channel has even been accused by American singer Beck as making him want to smoke crack, of course even crack makes you want to smoke crack so I don’t see his point. Now the Indian Health and Family Welfare Minister claims that it can not only be used to ruin society but indeed to end it, or at least slow it down in the rural areas of India. Yes with the risk of doing himself or rather his successor out of a job the Family Welfare Minister believes late night T.V. is the answer to having fewer families. The Minister Mr Azad, insists : If there is electricity in every village, then people will watch TV till late at night and then fall asleep. They won’t get a chance to produce children,”
Obviously he’s not a morning person. Mr Azad went on to say: “Don’t think that I am saying this in a lighter vein. I am serious. TV will have a great impact. It’s a great medium to tackle the problem . . . 80 per cent of population growth can be reduced through TV.”
Where he gets the figure of 80% from is a mystery. Presumbably he believes 8 out ten conceptions are the result of people having nothing better to do and I thought it was more like 100%.