Making this visual argument, I thought about all that WHRO does.  One of the biggest impacts they have is on the children.  They seem really focused on trying to get as many educational programs and services they can to provide to the community.  In most homes of children, parents pay a monthly cable bill.  This gives the children of their homes an opportunity to watch anything.  Some parents don’t regulate television like they should and allow their children to watch about almost anything.  Television doesn’t always teach the right things and can send out some very bad messages.  If a parent were to regulate their child’s television habits, it could impact on how the child preserves things from right or wrong.  The great thing about public broadcasting is that it’s free and educational.  Shows like Sesame Street, Clifford, Arnold, WordGirl plus many others are not only educational but they involve the child in their viewing.  They make them think on their own.  These types of educational programs make learning fun for the child; it makes them want to watch these shows.  Some may not even realize their adding knowledge to their growing brains.  Shows on Disney, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network don’t provide educational television.  It’s more of just watching the “pretty colors” on the television screen.  They can sometimes put things in child’s head that makes them curious on things that they should try.            

            My quote, “Every day we make deposits into the memory banks of our children”, at the top of my paper refers to how parents have a huge roll on how we want our kids to grow up. From birth we know very little knowledge besides maybe how to breathe or move our hands and feet.  It’s up to the parents to send the right messages out to their children.  Some parents wonder why their children act out, but maybe next time they should think twice before yelling at them.  We can mold children’s brains from the start.  Putting a child in front of non-educational programs could do no good.  It’s not feeding the child’s knowledge but more so taking away from it.  That also goes along with the second quote “who controls the media, controls the mind”.  Just like the internet anything a child’s see on television or reads on the internet may be or may not be information the need to know.  Some children don’t realize everything that may be shown on television is not realistic.  Some may take fighting, or yelling, or smashing things against other people’s heads in okay to do when in reality it’s not.  Whereas if a child were to watch educational programs that public broadcasting provides, their using their brain to help think out the answers with the characters on television.  Once again, the parents have to help direct their children on the right path.  We want to fill our children with as much knowledge as possible, so they can grow up to be an in depth learner. We would all like to see a better tomorrow.