International TV Turnoff Week April 22 - 28

White Dot* invades New Zealand as supporters plan to turn off tv for one week.

Tell a Friend about the TURN OFF week.

International TV Turnoff week happens all next week, right round the globe. Its an easy way to give a message to the self-important networks, and you'll be in good company as you join in with people from countries as diverse as Brazil and Columbia to Japan, the US, Turkey and Greece.

Watching more than one hour per day of TV is implicated in the violent nature of adolescents**.

Yes, if you're a parent, your common sense has been corroborated by a very recent study showing that "Teenagers who watch more than one hour of television a day are more likely to become violent adults" - yeah, you read right - and not just from watching violent tv, but any programming. And its from Science journal so the TV PR spinners will have some work to do to come back from that one.
This year Fair is saying to you - turn it off.

It'll be fun - in fact a helluva lot more fun than you're currently having if you watch the box.. As granddad used to say, "get a bit of fresh air round their backsides".

Don't think you can live without it? - try it for a couple of days, or for the whole of TV Turnoff week - you might never find the time to turn it on again.

Do it for your kid's health, or your own; your entertainment or your sanity.
Do whatever - but do the White Dot thing.

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* Note for younger viewers - In the old days, the TV picture faded reassuringly to a small white dot when the 'off' button was pressed. New TV sets have lost this feature.
** Science 295 pp2468 - 2471, (2002) - Johnson JL et al 'Television viewing and aggressive behaviour during adolescence and adulthood'

A call for media responsibility from FAIR NZ
Auckland, New Zealand

FAIR is concerned with the globally linked issues of consumerism, human rights, globalisation and sustainability.

FAIR contact -
http://shell.ihug.co.nz/~stu/fair/
Stuart Sontier
Email buynothingday@ihug.co.nz

TV TURNOFF RESOURCES:

TV Turnoff Network:
http://www.tvturnoff.org/
http://www.whitedot.org/

Adbusters TV Turnoff site:
http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/tvturnoff/

Children and TV:

- merchants of cool
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/

Alternative Media:
http://www.indymedia.org.nz/
http://www.globalvision.org
http://www.papertiger.org/

Make your own:
http://www.videonetwork.org/
http://www.papertiger.org/index.php?name=tools