TV has also paid my husband's wages and kept a roof over our heads for many, many years and, by way of the health insurance provided for by his employer, paid for my heart surgery making sure I could live a good while longer than it looked in 2004. Yes, a lot of it is crap, but there are also good shows if you aren't too prejudiced to look for them.

The above sample is a stupid, not well done parody. I happen to enjoy Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune at times. They're just trivia games much like the card game Trivial Pursuit. It's a lot better than all of the blood and guns violent popular shows AND prurient pseudo news shows shown during prime time when children are still awake. At least from J and WoF, kids can learn some fun stuff.

Then there's PBS and all of the interesting things covered on the History channel, old treasures shown on Turner Classic Movies channel, etc.

It's not all bad, nor is it all good. I reminded of this:

There is so much bad in the best of us
and so much good in the worst of us
It hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us!