Mander's fourth argument, The Inherent Biases of Television, focuses on information loss. He explains, " There are many technological factors that conspire to limit what the medium can transmit. Some information fits, some doesn't. Some information can pass through, but only after being reshaped, redefined, packaged, and made duller and coarser than before. Some ways of mind can be conveyed and some cannot."
In this section he also quotes Robert Keeshan, the actor who played Captain Kangaroo: "When you are spending time in front of the television, you are not doing other things. The young child of three or four years old is in the stage of the greatest emotional development that human beings undergo. And we only develop when we experience things, real life things: a conversation with Mother, touching Father, going places, doing things, relating to others. This kind of experience is critical to a child, and when the child spends thirty-five hours per week in front of the TV set, it is impossible to have the full range of real-life experience that a young child must have."
In this section he also quotes Robert Keeshan, the actor who played Captain Kangaroo: "When you are spending time in front of the television, you are not doing other things. The young child of three or four years old is in the stage of the greatest emotional development that human beings undergo. And we only develop when we experience things, real life things: a conversation with Mother, touching Father, going places, doing things, relating to others. This kind of experience is critical to a child, and when the child spends thirty-five hours per week in front of the TV set, it is impossible to have the full range of real-life experience that a young child must have."
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