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kids do not know what it is like to play outside until it is dark, or what it is like to play board games. Children today watch so much television and play so many electronics that it is effecting their weight, grades, and behavior. Which is why Dr. John M. Grohol wrote an article about the bad effects television has on children. The main issue with television and today’s children is that they watch too much of it and parents are not censoring what they watch or play. This article was…

This article was interesting to me because it taught me that even minor aspects could have a huge impact on a show and whether it will succeed or tank. I thought it was interesting that the time slot of a show can have a heavy impact on viewers and ratings. Thursday night is a popular night for TV already, ABC has some of their most popular hits such as Grey’s Anatomy which has , NBC has the NFL games, like the article pointed out and Fox now has this family drama to get thrown into the mix.…

The Greatness of Television There are many options for television shows on the air today, whether good or bad so it is good to know what is worth watching. Television shows need to be evaluated because as a viewer you don’t want to be wasting your time watching something that isn’t good. “Timeless” is a new television show on NBC that airs Monday nights. Timeless centers around a three-team group trying to stop Garcia Flynn, a criminal with the intent to change American history, each of the…

1960s Television Imagine yourself sitting in the living room with your family. It’s the mid 1960s, and you’re flipping through channels until you reach CNN, where John F. Kennedy is standing at his post, giving a speech, with Nixon right behind him. You are watching the very first televised presidential debate. You decide to watch something else, so you click the remote, and Fred Flintstone appears on the screen, living life in the town of Bedrock. On comes an ad about toothbrushes, then…

having to apply analytics to a real-world business I thought this would be great for me to look into. Netflix’s was first created for online movie rentals in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph but it has grown into the biggest internet television network in over 190 countries. This success can be linked to business analytics because it provides their media center insight into the viewer habits in what they like to watch and it gives recommendations into other things the view might be…

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…

Anastasia Papanikolaou Mr. Engel AP English 11- 2 March 29, 2015 Pop Culture - Television: article responses • Watching TV Makes You Smarter by Steven Johnson 1. Steven Johnson calls his theory -- that the “most debased forms of mass diversion” (para. 4) turn out to be good for us, after all the “Sleeper Curve” after a scene in a Woody Allen movie. How does using one form of popular culture examine another form affect Johnson’s argument? Johnson, by naming “the sleeper curve” after a…

TV: The Good and the Bad Television is a part of everyone’s life whether they like it or not. It has a profound impact on how we live our life from day to day. The articles, “Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor” by Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and “Television: The Plug-In Drug” by Marie Winn incorporate the effects that television has had on individuals and amongst society. The usage of television can bring about a balance of both positives and negatives in any ordinary family.…

Televisions affected our grandparents’ time in the 1950s As the world is getting more developed day by day, we can not imagine how different our lives would be without Iphones or Netflix. As people seek new innovations, products that were previously attractive became obsolete. For example, many people nowadays would prefer to watch Netflix on their Macbook rather than watching shows on televisions. Televisions used to be an important part of people’s lives. The 1950s were considered the Golden…

fiction in television has taken the world by storm. Everyday there is something that relates to the gothic side of society. Television shows have such a great impact on society that anywhere a person looks, there is always someone talking about things that happen on television that they almost cannot avoid hearing about it. Any television show is going to have an impact on people in general, but some have a greater affect than others. Eric Kripke, the master mind behind the hit television show…