Television is the single (1) on American life and the widely recognized lowest common denominator. More homes have televisions than (2) , and the average child spends more time watching television that he or she does in the classroom.
Television (3) ; news that isn’t covered on television didn’t happen and television-only events (4) .
Daytime shows lean towards (5) with plots that revolve around infidelity and medical crises, and talk shows in which hosts prod (6) no sane person would want to make public.
The American passion for (7) reaches a frenzy in evening game shows. Another evening staple is the hard-boiled (8) , which dwells on lurid topics such as body-snatching, (9) , and juvenile prostitution. The latest development in this kind of program is (10) , on which cameramen follow the police around for an evening and (11) .
Television reached its highest level, or perhaps more accurately, its lowest, with (12) , which provides more than 50 channels of programs. Specialized programs include The Weather Channel, (13) ; Music Television (MTV) and (14) and soul music imitators; C-span, which shows the (15) and is widely applied as something that makes you sleep, and Courtroom television, which allows viewers to shriek at the television judge the way sports fans might (16) .
On American television, few topics are considered (17) . Turn on a television any afternoon and you can see people discussing, (18) , before millions of viewers, topics natives of other nations (19) in the dark.
Faced with such unabashed exhibitionism, one is (20) , "Is nothing sacred" The answer, of course, is "Well, actually, no. Not on television, anyway."