Television has not only become a form of entertainment, but also a form of life. It seems as if television has been around since the dinosaurs, but surprisingly it has not even been around for 100 years. Television has changed the American lifestyle. It has become a necessity that the households of America can not live without. Television has made information…
Parents are troubled by the possible effect of television on their children such as the desire for unhealthy food and expensive toys. But the parents are alleviated of their worries if they believe the channel is educational.…
As said by Georgia Jagger “Reality tv rots people’s brains.” Reality tv results in children and teens becoming sexists and believing in stereotypes. Reality tv ruins common morals and causes child and teens to act as the actors in the show. Parents should monitor the number of hours their children watch reality tv. Watching reality tv creates the basis of delusions and dangerous stereotypes for the impressionable.…
Some shows do not benefit our minds in any way and can have a negative effect on people if television is watched for long periods of time. As kids get older, too much television can interfere with activities such as being physically active of playing with friends outside. A fact stated that children who spend more than four hours per day watching TV tend to be overweight in the long run. Another fact proven is that TV can influence drug and alcohol usage along with violence.…
In the article, Watching TV Makes You Smarter, Steven Johnson argues that many of the shows that our population considers unhealthy are actually relatively healthy for our brains. On the other hand, Dana Stevens argues in her essay, Thinking Outside The Idiot Box, that Steven Johnson’s thesis makes absolutely no sense and that television in no way gets our brains thinking or makes us smarter. Johnson starts by explaining what he calls the Sleeper Curve. He does this by comparing older TV shows like Starsky and Hutch to recent shows like The Sopranos and 24.…
Now with such a negative suggestion, and advertisements running rampant throughout a person’s daily ingestion of tv it is of no surprise that such “entertainment” would negatively impact a young society's sense of well being and…
Every morning while grandma is filling the house with the aroma of bacon, eggs, and toast, four-year-old Jack is watching television. Jack’s grandmother is not worried about the quality of programming he is watching because Jack is watching kids’ shows on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). As Jack grows up, he will be able to watch more PBS shows suited for his adult life. PBS brings quality shows to Americans for all ages. Public broadcasting mediums such as PBS are vital to society because they provide education, information, and culture.…
Fifty years ago technology was undeveloped and not a large part of people’s lives like it is today. Now you find children in front of a television for an excessive amount of time, which is affecting them in multiple ways. While such a large amount of time is spent in front of the television, it is causing them to become passive and have a difficult time comprehending things. Bly states another effect of the television, “Television provides an garbage dump of obsessive sexual material inappropriate to the child’s age, minute descriptions of brutalities, wars, and tortures all over the world: an avalanche of specialized information that stunts the brain” (22). Adolescents have dismissed their culture to only concern themselves with what is in the media.…
The debate on whether television programs are making society more educated has gone on for years. Author Steven Johnson goes into extensive and specific research about this topic in his article, “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”. Throughout the writing piece, Johnson discusses the differences in television from two decades ago, a decade ago, fives years ago versus television now. His argument is strongly saying that TV series’ and programs have advanced conspicuously by introducing more complexity within its plots and characters, and making watchers think more deeply. While some of Johnson’s points may be valid, not all television shows are increasing the intelligence of its viewers.…
Watching TV : Worthy or not Worthy? In the article” Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” the author Steven Johnson argues over the past decade that TV programs have changed its scheme from single complex narrative plots of “masses want dumb things” (Johnson, 278). to multi threat or “cognitive demanding” (Johnson,278).…
It is so informative and educational yet it holds your attention and actually is quite suspenseful. There are also informative shows that are quite humorous, my two personal favorites being, “Sex Sent Me to the E.R” and “I Didn’t Know I was Pregnant”. “Sex Sent Me to the E.R” is a show that has real life patients tell their stories of how they ended up in a hospital after sexual intercourse. For example, one guy almost had to have his hand amputated due to the lack of blood flow from being handcuffed so tightly. Viewers get to once again watch a doctor’s thought process as he or she figures out how to handle the situation, and the same time you get a good laugh from another person’s ridiculous story.…
For many of us, television is such a constant presence in our lives that we haven’t stopped to question whether or not it is good, and most never ask ourselves if and how television might be hurting us. Television can make them feel like part of a group and let participate in a shared subculture in social situations where you may find yourself surrounded by strangers with whom you have nothing in common, a popular show or televised sporting event might give you something to talk about. Kids believe that what they see on TV is real and true, want to take extra care to make sure that the characters they watch. Some things on TV is not true at all they want you to believe it. Early television was quite primitive.…
Kilbourne suggests that the true purpose of television is to advertise rather than entertain: “The media know that television and radio programs are simply fillers for the space between commercial.” I find it very interesting that Kilbourne suggest that the commercial we skip when we have the chance are the true purpose of television. But she is correct, if a show is about 30 minutes, about 1/3 of the program will be commercials. Often times, I feel like commercials appear more than the actual content of the show. In addition, commercials are so essential for a television show that even when you watch television shows online, commercials and advertisements are included—ads that cannot be skipped.…
Television shows an unrealistic view of our society that distracts on what is really happening in our world and our lives. We use television as an escape from our problems like how Lenina use soma to escape from her problems. “ Lenina felt herself entitled, after this day of queerness and horror, to a complete and absolute holiday. As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma...” (Huxley 140).…
always wanted to be a superheroine. The idea of saving the world and protect people against the evil force has always fascinated me. However, the concept of a heroine for a little girl was not mostly inspired by cartoons instead it was inspired by politicians, revolutionaries, and visionaries that used their words and ideas as their fundamental power. Nowadays, even though my life had changed a couple of times, the desire is still alive. I can say that my hobby, my passion and my desires for a better society had combined in order to shape my love for political science.…