As with just about everything, there are both positive as well as negative aspects to consider when looking at the effect of television in American culture. It is true that television can be educational, entertaining and empowering. The media consumption in general and TV specifically, has grown with rapid fervor over the past 60 years thus, a uniquely symbiotic relationship between culture and TV was born. This relationship has been slowly cemented by the cultures dependence on media in general. However, the parasitical nature of the relationship in which American culture is being drained of its health and vitality as media continues its insatiable demand.
