For example, if a viewer was interested in a crime and criminal justice as a career opportunity, they could watch a show that focusses on many different aspects of criminal justice such as the show Blue Bloods. The show allows for viewers to look into and research different jobs because Blue Bloods focusses on a family which includes detectives, cops, district attorneys, and a police commissioner (“About Blue Bloods”). In another scenario, television shows have some characters with a specific job title do the jobs that in reality are done by other jobs. For example, “In CSI the same person picks up samples at the crime scene and then analyses them, but in reality that 's done by different people. And only forensic pathologists cut up dead bodies” (Murray). Students are able to learn that maybe the job they think they want is actually a different job through research. These two instances show that the series watched can be a source of information for them to research farther in depth, when it comes to making career decisions from a television show. However, some series may have some misperceptions about the …show more content…
Some of these misperceptions are simple such as some of the characters doing jobs that would typically be carried out by another profession. However, some of the characters portraying misperceptions of a certain job can lead to major implications later in time, when they already have the job similar to their favorite character. One important misperception is ethics and the way a character is written to behave on a show because it can lead some viewers to try to act in a similar manner in their own workplace. This has become an issue that John Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics has researched to see if shows such as Grey’s Anatomy, E.R., Nip and Tuck, and House, MD, which display ethical issues, are affecting the “students’ beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions regarding the practice of medicine and bioethical issues” (Czarny et al.). The study was performed on John Hopkins University medical and nursing students, and they were able to conclude that these shows are serving as an “informal curriculum” for some of their students because they are watching how the doctors, nurses, and medical staff handle certain ethical issues. These issues range from ethical issues on a surgical service to unethical methods used by doctors when they are treating their patients (Czarny et al.). It is important that people who watch shows focused on the career