Long before MTV flooded the airwaves with brain-killing tween programming, the network has been making America dumb. It’s called “the MTV effect.” A smart person explains: “When MTV came on, it started showing music videos that had very quick edits… Consequently, the pacing of other television and films sped up too, with much quicker edits.” Researchers believe these rapid-paced broadcasts may be a key factor for why so many TV-obsessed Americans have such short attention spans. |Science Daily|
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MTV Has Been Making Us Stupid for Years
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…and all the skewed camera angles made a generation of crooked-necked hipsters.
but the conclusion, as is the norm of such studies, is ambiguous: "It is important to note that television or video game time cannot solely explain the development of attention problems," he said. "Clearly other factors are involved."
Sesame Street started this way before MTV and they are catching kids with it at a much younger age. the edits might not be as quick as music videos, but they were a big step up from other tv at that time.