The young people who have experienced a decade of TV 
have naturally imbibed an urge toward involvement in depth 
that makes all the remote visualized goals of usual culture 
seem not only unreal but irrelevant, and not only irrelevant but 
anemic. It is the total involvement in all-inclusive nowness  that 
occurs in young lives via TV’s mosaic image. This change of 
attitude has nothing to do with programming in any way, and 
would be the same if the programs consisted entirely of the 
highest cultural content. The change in attitude by means of 
relating themselves to the mosaic TV image would occur in any 
event. It is, of course, our job not only to understand this 
change but to exploit it for its pedagogical richness. The TV 
child expects involvement and doesn’t want a specialist job  in 
the future. He does want a role  and a deep commitment to his 
society. Unbridled and misunderstood, this richly human need 
can manifest itself in the distorted forms portrayed in West