The author's views are good, but I think they're a little extreme.
My mother read to me for years, ever since I was a year old. She never read 70 books a week (I doubt she really had the time) but she read to me at every meal and at every bedtime. I had some favourite picture books that I would get her to read out repeatedly -- "The Elephant and the Bad Baby" being one favourite that I remember. For years we had only Doordarshan, which only my parents would watch. We had videos though, that I loved to watch, and video and computer games, which I still love to play. That doesn't mean I didn't grow up on Enid Blyton's Noddy and Famous Five and Secret Seven.
I don't think you ahould saturate a child with just books and nothing else. TV and computers and movies are a large part of the real world today. Books shouldn't be seen as the only way to stop the bad influence of TV, and nor can you keep dishing out scientific and educational stuff to your children always. They will want amusement and entertainment too. Children should be able to make their own desicions (and they're not exactly dumb). A parent can't force a child to read, or not to watch TV; only guide the child.
