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/^t/Television, radio and newspaper have become our family members. They entertain, instruct, inform and if they are boring you can switch on another channel or turn the page over. They are less troublesome than your cousins who visit you in the least convenient moment so that you try to make up a credible excuse on the spot. The simplicity of starting TV has made us so extremely lazy and passive that we are simultaneously 'switched on' to attentive but involuntary listening and watching. Children, teenagers and even adults can't do without this magic box which is an adviser, a friend but also a curse and addiction.