Television, friend ou enemy ?

I still don't know if the television is a friend ou an enemy.
I mean, in some cases it helps us, by giving us informations about everything around the world, entertaining us with cartoons, movies, talk shows, and game shows. In the other hand, to use only the television as a mean of communication can turn us on 'aliens'.
Kids are the most vunerable people in this situations. There parents who work the entire day, so they have to hire a nanny or a maid to take care of their children, in most of the cases these people let the children watch TV the entire day. The problem of kids watching TV all day is that the cartoons nowadays are not as inocents as they were in the past. Now, most of the kids programs involve violence, and kids may start bringing this violence home, parents mut be carefull with it.

Producers of programs , like Ben 10, also use the image of the cartoon to sell theis produtcs, its a marketing game. Of course, they know how addicted the kids are in their program, and they take advantage on this, creating thousands of objects to sell, such as notebooks, books, games, puzzles, bicicles, and lots of other products.
Parents should control more their children, putting a limit of hours for them to wacht the TV, avoiding to raise an addicted, alienated person.