Afternoon Shift: Children and media, 120th anniversay of the World’s Fair and David Isay

Afternoon Shift: Children and media, 120th anniversay of the World’s Fair and David Isay
Flickr / Nasos Zovoilis
Afternoon Shift: Children and media, 120th anniversay of the World’s Fair and David Isay
Flickr / Nasos Zovoilis

Afternoon Shift: Children and media, 120th anniversay of the World’s Fair and David Isay

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Children spend over 2,000 hours a year watching television. When compared to the 800 hours children spend in school every year, some say they are over-saturated with media. Since it started ten years ago, more than 45,000 stories have been collected through the StoryCorps oral history project.