TV-Turnoff Week 2007 April 23th - 29th
Children watch estimated 18,000 murders on TV by age 18 and over 200,000 acts of violence
By Hilary White
WASHINGTON, D.C.,
April 20, 2007

(LifeSiteNews.com) - TV-Turnoff Week is a project of the Washington-based non-profit group Center for Screen Time Awareness that encourages children and adults to watch much less television. Their annual promotion includes two programs TV-Turnoff Week and More Reading, Less TV, “to help people, especially children, to turn off TV and turn on life”.

65 national organizations, including the American Medical Association, the National Education Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, support or endorse TV-Turnoff Week. Since 1995, more than 24 million people have participated. the rest