Here's the headline from this 1950 Motorola ad touting how owning its TV will mean better grades at school for your children, keeping them out of mischief, and strengthen family ties.
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Here's the headline from this 1950 Motorola ad touting how owning its TV will mean better grades at school for your children, keeping them out of mischief, and strengthen family ties.
Larger pic here: Link
http://www.trashyourtv.com/
Of course it's ridicule. Just like poking fun at the fashions from the 60's.
We're humans: we like to feel smugly superior to whatever we can.