There is a remarkable side-effect of television. While people enjoy the broadcasts they steer ever further from the people they are viewing with. This silence and lack of interaction goes further when watching television keeps increasing and the time spent is not just gluing people to the screens it is almost locking them down - 'imprisoning'. When the workers, housewives or unemployed get a show - they are quite unaware of the hidden leash.
Some of the tv does provoke thought, but is not most of tv either a repeat or a cliche of sorts? When the precious thought does arise - it too is an intrusion into the normal affairs of human communication and should be regarded as a such.
Avoiding tv is almost seen as a kind of blasphemy - not catching on to these little group-psychoses - a vice, a lack of "communication" in a diabolical paradox. To some extent it reduces the harsh talk and heightened tones of voice - a calming effect seems to land in the family, the stress that is released in the interim periods when the tv is shut is cured for a while. The hidden side remains - the very cause of this stress is usually the artificially heightened adrenaline and after that a mix of glucocorticoids that the shows produce in every viewer.
So in conclusion: there are at least three levels of adverse effects - first, the loss of genuine human communication, secondly, the psychological effect, thirdly, the social effect of seclusion from others for hours every day.
(But the same thing works with social media if one does not watch that much Youtube.)
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