CHILDREN AND TELEVISION
UNESCO Survey Of Effects <Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 15. A survey of television in Britain, the United States and France, issued today by the United Nations Educational Scientific and‘Cultural Organisation in Paris, shows that it has not affected children’s school work, but has resulted in both children and adultg reading fewer books. The report, which dealt with conflicting opinions on television, said there were 1,500,000 receivers in the United Kingdom, 50,000 in France, and 17,000,000 in the United States. Television had brought families closer together and had given young people an awareness of the outside world which newspapers, movies and the radio had first brought to the older age groups, says the report. Television kept young persons at home more. In Britain it had reduced visits to the cinema by 40 per cent. e afternoon, and by one third at night. In New York 49 per cent, of book readers said they had not read a book since they bought television receiver!.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26967, 17 February 1953, Page 9
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