Fireworks or gunfire? It may be difficult for some non-gun-wheedling citizens to tell the difference, but every cop knows ringing of gunfire. Miraculous patient recoveries are everyday norms for doctors, well, at least on TV. Several aspects of TV don’t depict real-life scenarios that happen in these job fields, instead they show the exciting, romanticized, alluring and often skewed, concepts of the job. Cops don’t experience shoot outs every day, half their day or sometimes more is spent on doing paperwork, doctors don’t receive mesmerizing cases everyday nor do they save every patient they encounter. Many aspects that TV presents about career life and choices isn’t accurate and yet these shows remain and act as socializing factors for young adults, teenagers, and even real adults who have yet to choose their career path. For exercise one: Working Conditions and TV jobs, I decided to analyze Chicago PD and to which extent it accurately depicts the professions of the police and detectives and not to my surprise found discrepancies.
While watching Chicago PD, I was genuinely surprised at the amount of real work that was getting done in the episode. Other shows that I’ve …show more content…
Shows show the romanticized and extremes of certain jobs, but realistically that isn’t how it works. It gives viewers, in a way, a push to consider these job titles and see for themselves if it is everything shows make it out to be. TV shows can also give a glimpse of what someone might expect in the future with the scenes and aspects that do accurately describe certain jobs. However, at the end of the day, TV shows are merely another source of entertainment for the public and hence must be exciting and gripping, which sometimes leads to exaggeration of key aspects of the job. Because of this, career and work should be taken with a grain of salt in TV
While watching Chicago PD, I was genuinely surprised at the amount of real work that was getting done in the episode. Other shows that I’ve …show more content…
Shows show the romanticized and extremes of certain jobs, but realistically that isn’t how it works. It gives viewers, in a way, a push to consider these job titles and see for themselves if it is everything shows make it out to be. TV shows can also give a glimpse of what someone might expect in the future with the scenes and aspects that do accurately describe certain jobs. However, at the end of the day, TV shows are merely another source of entertainment for the public and hence must be exciting and gripping, which sometimes leads to exaggeration of key aspects of the job. Because of this, career and work should be taken with a grain of salt in TV