Question #2 on the (not-so) Great TV Debate

Continuing with my view from the middle-of-the-roaders, or the Reluctant Progressives, I shall now answer # 2 of the editor's TV questions:

2. Do you foresee a time when TV and/or TV advertising will be adopted? Will the passing of time smooth your adoption of TV? How much time will be needed for this to happen?

I have noticed a trend among hardliners who say TV is evilevilevil but who also spend quality time after church service glued to CNN at the restaurant at the exclusion of conversation with others at the table. Also, this breed has adopted the internet whole-heartedly, with high-speed dsl or cable hook-up at the house which allows the watching of all things video on the internet, including TV shows, sporting events and live newscasts. To me, the hardliners approach and adoption of TV is softened by embracing internet technology.

As for a timeframe, I'm not sure when this will happen. Probably with the passing of the reins to a younger hardliner who has grown up with internet and video. Widespread addiction to internet pornography may undermine the TV question altogether, by which I mean nude or semi-nude photos and video on myspace, facebook, AOL, Yahoo, youtube...you name it, it's there. Also, it is possible to click through every television channel and not chance upon the extreme pornography available to internet users with one or two clicks.

I do foresee a time when TV advertising will be utilized the same as a billboard is utilized by hardliners. But by then, it may be too late. In less than ten years we have adopted the medium of internet to tell us everything we used to get from newspapers, magazines, and television combined. It can be accessed anywhere with a laptop, even a cell phone, and is rendering the entire TV issue as a moot point faster than we care to believe. Or at least the hardliner wants to believe.