I assume you have long since stopped watching TV? Because I find it interesting that many people who slam video games sit drooling in front of a TV and have no issue with their brains being fully propagandized by the experience.
we stopped our cable service because we mostly got 200 channels of advertising for products we aren’t interested in, plus mind-rotting krapo “programs” ....
we still have a boobtoob and occasionally watch “Nature” or “Nova” but we skip over the midrot krap.
Recall Vladimar Zwyorkin, the Jewish Russian immigrant who invented the main TV tube that made modern electronic TV practical. He envisioned all sorts of wonderful, uplifting, educational and high-cultural programs of instruction, opera, symphonies, to enhance people’s lives.
Asked about it a few years on, he said that... had he known the krappy (my word) programming that would take over broadcasting, that he would have smashed every one of his prototype tubes in his laboratory.
(Note: and that was his comment on 1950’s or 60’s programming, which was not nearly as demeaning and just plain stupid as today’s....)