Is tv for zombies?

Television for most people is a love hate relationship. We love to watch it but hate that it sucks us in and takes away time for other more important things. Most of the shows on television today to put it lightly are crap. They exhibit no possible way to enhance our life except to entertain us, and there are many other possible ways to entertained (reading, playing outside, etc). About the only informative channels and shows are the news, NOVA, PBS, and others like those. Television is one of the reasons there is such a problem with obesity on the united states. Instead of playing outside children are watching tv. Television usually ends up taking 4-5 hours out of my week that I could have spent studying. For those of you that say that you study while watching television you are must be superhuman. Whenever I try to multi task I just end up watching tv. Therefore although there is a love hate relationship between tv and I. I believe that tv is not providing anything extra in our daily lives other than another distraction of this modern day age. And so I try whenever possible to stray away from television.