Please Tune Out Those TV Studies

[Commentary] Television affects our lives, as do microwaves, cellphones, cars, polyester, Tupperware. You can either study those effects to death or just accept that there’s a good-bad trade-off in watching television, and that you should negotiate it as best as you can, using common sense. And, if you’re old enough, you can occasionally long for the blissful days 60 years or so ago when you could consume as much TV as you wanted and be grateful for the electronic miracle that put a talking box with pictures in your living room.