Robert Putnam, the leading scholar of America’s declining sense of community, has found that TV viewing is the central explanation of the decline of “social capital,” the trust that binds communities together. Americans simply trust each other less than they did a generation ago.
Robert Putman, el prominente especialista en la decadente sensación de comunidad en Estados Unidos, descubrió que mirar televisión es la explicación central de la merma del "capital social", la confianza que une a las comunidades.