1. The purpose of this article is to persuade the general public that reality television contributes no practical benefits to our lives and has in fact, created a degenerate and immoral society.
2. This article does have a bias. Jonah Goldberg believes that the only reason why society is in such a degraded state of condition relative to the past is due to the influence of reality television.
3. In the article, Reality Television Debases Society, Goldberg focuses on how “reality-show culture has [accelerated] the decay and [helped] to create a society in which celebrity is the new nobility.” He provides specific case studies favorable to his point including the first Survivor champion, Richard Hatch, who was just released from incarceration …show more content…
The editor of the National Review then proceeds to inform that the industry is suddenly having a crisis of conscience about “its impact on the culture,” which does not to amount to anything noteworthy. Whereas …show more content…
In my personal experience, sitting down and letting my eyes absorb in the pixelated dots on the screen serve to only de-stress and allow myself to enter a pseudo state of happiness. While watching television does have the ability to move oneself away from reality for a brief moment, it is merely for a . . . brief moment. In other words, all an individual has to gain from watching television is being able to turn a blind eye to the amount of work s/he has to attend to, which can be easily accomplished elsewhere by other means of relaxation like reading a book or keeping up with the current news – activities that are deemed far more productive because they have the potential to imbue us with knowledge and teach us invaluable information that cannot be procured somewhere else. In fact, if one is on a time crunch and finds it exceedingly difficult to work and receive an adequate amount of sleep every day, watching television will solely serve to exacerbate the problem at hand because precious time would be “wasted” on viewing reality shows. There is simply no need for extraneous distractions that contain a negligent practical value and cultivate in humans the desire to binge without a care for other hard-pressed
2. This article does have a bias. Jonah Goldberg believes that the only reason why society is in such a degraded state of condition relative to the past is due to the influence of reality television.
3. In the article, Reality Television Debases Society, Goldberg focuses on how “reality-show culture has [accelerated] the decay and [helped] to create a society in which celebrity is the new nobility.” He provides specific case studies favorable to his point including the first Survivor champion, Richard Hatch, who was just released from incarceration …show more content…
The editor of the National Review then proceeds to inform that the industry is suddenly having a crisis of conscience about “its impact on the culture,” which does not to amount to anything noteworthy. Whereas …show more content…
In my personal experience, sitting down and letting my eyes absorb in the pixelated dots on the screen serve to only de-stress and allow myself to enter a pseudo state of happiness. While watching television does have the ability to move oneself away from reality for a brief moment, it is merely for a . . . brief moment. In other words, all an individual has to gain from watching television is being able to turn a blind eye to the amount of work s/he has to attend to, which can be easily accomplished elsewhere by other means of relaxation like reading a book or keeping up with the current news – activities that are deemed far more productive because they have the potential to imbue us with knowledge and teach us invaluable information that cannot be procured somewhere else. In fact, if one is on a time crunch and finds it exceedingly difficult to work and receive an adequate amount of sleep every day, watching television will solely serve to exacerbate the problem at hand because precious time would be “wasted” on viewing reality shows. There is simply no need for extraneous distractions that contain a negligent practical value and cultivate in humans the desire to binge without a care for other hard-pressed