This claim is false. Adolescent TV watching peaked at around 2.5 hours in the 1970s. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/ppm-ppm0000203.pdf https://www.a

This claim is false. Adolescent TV watching peaked at around 2.5 hours in the 1970s. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/ppm-ppm0000203.pdf https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/ppm-ppm0000203.pd... The overall amount of time adolescents spend on passive screen entertainment has increased dramatically in our lifetimes, especially in the last decade. It has come at the expense of books and reading (as well as other things). There is lots of data out there.