Perhaps the most familiar and pathetic effect of the TV 
image is the posture of children in the early grades. Since TV, 
children—regardless of eye condition—average about six and a 
half inches from the printed page. Our children are striving to 
carry over to the printed page the all-involving sensory 
mandate of the TV image. With perfect psycho-mimetic skill, 
they carry out the commands of the TV image. They pore, they 
probe, they slow down and involve themselves in depth. This is 
what they had learned to do in the cool iconography of the 
comic-book medium. TV carried the process much further. 
Suddenly they are transferred to the hot print medium with its 
uniform patterns and fast lineal movement. Pointlessly they 
strive to read print in depth. They bring to print all their senses, 
and print rejects them. Print asks for the isolated and stripped 
down visual faculty, not for the unified sensorium.