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Manipulation through television Today in America, nothing tends to create values and ideas into society more than television. Television is more than just entertainment; we receive late breaking news, latest fashions, and society’s trends from watching it. There is nothing else on the earth that reaches as many people as television. According to IAGD.Net, the average American watches over 4 hours of TV a day. Also children spend more than 900 hours in a school year, but many will watch over 1000 hours of television in the same year. The American Academy of Pediatrics study says, by the time today's child reaches age 70, he or she will have spent approximately seven years watching TV. One thing can be said about television, the images and values that its viewers absorb are standards that the viewer can accept to be the norm. Television manipulates by showing its audience a false representation of society. The viewer then perceives these false representations as a model of what they, and society should be or act like. Since the conception of television programming, many of the images the viewers see instill notions of what they accept as a structure for society. Shows that portray the perfect family, such as “Leave It To B