Well the guys presented a good list of disadvantages here.
What I can add is:
- TV kills your imagination. Here I'd like to paraphrise the words of
Milorad Pavich, serbian writer. "Each of us unleashes our thought
for a walk like a monkey on a lead. When you read, you always heave 2
such monkeys, one of which is yours and other is someone's else." When
you watch TV, you have a monkey and a huge wolf, and you's better be
cautious 'cause wolf doesn't eat what monkey eats. In fact, it eats
monkeys
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When you read a book, you imagine characters, settings, you
imagine all the situations. When you watch TV, your magination is
absent. It is temporarily dead. Someone else has decided for you the
looks of the characters, setting, all the images... Somebody directs
your attention. You do not control this... And the more you watch TV,
the largest part of your lifetime it takes, the less you control your
life..
- TV is a means of propaganda, the most agressive propaganda ever. It
dictates lifestyles, tastes, fashion, desires of modern people.
Actually, it tells you what is cool and what is not, it teaches you
patterns of behaviour, and since many movies shown on TV are stupid,
violent and shallow, you learn these patterns of behavious and
thinking. And of course, advertisement. Advertisement is the main
reason (along with political advertisement) why this medium exists.
Advertisement became so global that you cannot even notice that the
intention of certain movie, program, news is to make you want
something. It's awful. It manipulates people as Pavlov's dogs
(hopefully you remember that Absolut advertisement
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- Finally, the most important thing against TV is that it is not real.
It's virtual. And unlike Internet (like these forums for instance
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you don't participate in this reality. You don't create it. You just
watch. The more time you waste in this virtual world, the less time you
have for your real life