Problem Programs Robert MacNeil began his article the, “The Trouble With Television,” with the overwhelming statistic that the average television viewer squanders one thousand hours per year watching television programming (MacNeil). One thousand hours is a tremendous amount of time squandered watching programs with unchallenging content, this time could be better spent earning a college degree or perhaps earning various languages (MacNeil). I concur with MacNeil that television does “discourage concentration and applied effort” for the reason that viewers spend an excessive amount of time watching unsophisticated and undemanding programming rather then engaging in activities that