Was it [top-down control of mass media which destroyed the moral fabric of society](https://jamesperloff.com/2018/04/27/the-real-reason-there-was-a-golden-age-of-television/)?

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Gary North [wrote](https://www.lewrockwell.com/2004/04/gary-north/smoking-guns-of-911/):

> Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is used to justify the drugging of millions of young children in America’s public schools. But where did this affliction come from? Why has it become an epidemic in the public schools since about 1980?
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> A recent medical report says that too much television viewed from ages 1 to 3 help to create this affliction. Children’s TV shows keep switching images every few seconds. This supposedly undermines children’s attention spans.
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> My view is this aspect of commercial television is a permanent feature. Attention Deficit Disorder is television’s gift to adults, too. We all suffer from it.