TV: A Soul-Contaminator?

Here's a good post on TV and kids from Al Mohler (referencing a NY Times article). I was pretty shocked to hear that some 70% of 3rd graders have televisions in their bedrooms. Though Al understands that there are some benefits of the TV medium, parents must act with great care with their kids and their viewing habits. Al writes:

"For Christian parents, a proper concern must move from the more generalized effects of television as a communications medium to the content of the communication -- the message and the medium. Television is a soul-contaminator, training young souls to want the wrong consumer goods, value the wrong moral goods, laugh at the wrong places, and emulate vacuous and immoral celebrities."