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Post by Saurabh Jain on Nov 9, 2007 10:34:20 GMT 5.5
Is television a good thing or a bad thing?
For Television
Television has alot of educational programs on it such as wildlife programs, the history of many countries and other things that could be deemed educational to people.
Television can be social. You can play games against your friends on a games console that is connected to your T.V (Most larger consoles anyway). You can bring friends around to watch a football match and other such things.
Television can also show you many wonders of the world. The discovery channel looks at many different places in the world. It can open our eyes to the world around us. Different cultures/lifestyles that if we were to have no television would never experience.
These are some of the good things that television offers, now a look at the side effects/the negatives...
Against Television
Television has been proved to be detrimental to your health. It has been shown in recent clinical studies that it reduces your awareness and your creativity.
Television can be social but it is also deemed anti-social. The reason for this is because someone can go without contact with other people for a long time while watching television. It takes away the community when there is a television in every home.
Television is one of the major causes of obesity throughout the world. Instead of exercising, people would rather sit down and watch hours of T.V.
Television can also ruin your social life by changing the way you socialise with people. Television soaps can do this, they are only fictional and people can get caught up with their methods.
So what do you think about television, is it a bad thing that should be limited down or a good thing and that current television is good for life?
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Post by vimala on Nov 11, 2007 17:38:00 GMT 5.5
i will go for television is bad
Television is bad because people get addicted to it. TV addiction corrupts the mind and isolates you from the world and ruins your judgement in life. The media also spreads societal propaganda further influencing the masses because of it's importance and addiction. Examples of propaganda either are societal and political. Examples are racism, sexism, stereotypes, nationalism, democracy, socialism, materialism, violence, and commercial deception
Television when watched irresponsibly can be dangerous to our minds and bodies. Watching too much television is a big problem in this country. Television also has a bad influence on young people, which can lead to crime. Everyone should try to stop watching television; it is a path to poor health and unhappiness
Do you know we are ruled by TV?" -- from the poem An American Prayer by Jim Morrison
"They put an off button on the TV for a reason. Turn it off . . . I really don't watch much TV." -- President George W. Bush, C-SPAN interview, January 2005
"American children and adolescents spend 22 to 28 hours per week viewing television, more than any other activity except sleeping. By the age of 70 they will have spent 7 to 10 years of their lives watching TV." -- The Kaiser Family Foundation
"You watch television to turn your brain off and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on." -- Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer and Pixar, in Macworld Magazine, February 2004
"Everybody’s got values . . . The thing that frightens me is the way that an eroding public school system . . . and television on all over the place is leading to a steady dumbing down of the American public and a corrosion of basic critical thinking in the population." -- Jamie Raskin, American University law professor, November 2004 on the Democracy Now! radio program
"Protestant clergy named divorce, negative influences from the media, and materialism as the three greatest threats to families in their communities." -- from an Ellison Research study of 695 Protestant church ministers nationwide, October 2004
"The media can wreak great harm on the family when it offers an inadequate or even distorted vision of life, of the family itself and of religion and morality." -- Pope John Paul II, May 2004
"More than any other single effect, television places images in our brains." -- Jerry Mander in Four Arguments For The Elimination Of Television
Television reduces everything to the simplest common denominator. What has evolved is a media environment that is continually being pushed toward the ignorant, silly and idiotic
"In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance." -- S. I. Hayakawa
benitits of avoiding television The first thing you notice when stop having television in your life is the reduced stress level. The second thing you notice is...you're reading more. The third thing you notice is...you get out more, and you lose a little weight. The fourth thing you might notice (and not in order of importance) is...more sex. ; ) Remember, television acts on your brain in a way very similar to central nervous system depressants. and many more
You may feel that the television doesn't affect you. You are mature, and you can control it. If it doesn't affect you, why are you wasting your time with it? Why not do something creative yourself? Why not change the world for better instead of just observing all the real and imagined evil that the television will bring into your living room?
I vow to stop brainwashing myself with television.
Television is the transmission of television shows, and businesses produce television shows in order to make money by selling advertising space to businesses
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Post by smartkey on Nov 11, 2007 17:59:12 GMT 5.5
I agree with your point vimala... It's harmful if television is being watched for more than sufficient time. and nowadays news chanels are doing marketing of many business ideas.. rather than providing reality..
For example you can see the difference between door-darshan and the cable paid chanels
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Post by vimala on Nov 11, 2007 18:00:05 GMT 5.5
'I ask all memebers, guest to give their opinions about this'
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Post by kalpa on Nov 11, 2007 21:24:13 GMT 5.5
TELEVISION IS GOOD THING.
Television is an inescapable part of modern culture. We depend on TV for entertainment, news, education, culture, weather, sports—and even music, since the advent of music videos.
With the recent explosion in satellite and digital speciality channels, we now have access to a plethora of both good quality and inappropriate TV content. In this crowded television environment, the key for parents is to search out high quality TV programs for their kids, and whenever possible, enjoy them together as a family.
TIP: Create your own family TV-viewing traditions, such as watching Olympic coverage, the NHL playoffs, classic movies or a weekly comedy
Parents can use TV as a catalyst to get kids reading—following up on TV programs by getting books on the same subjects or reading authors whose work was adapted for the programs.
TV programs often explores controversial or sensitive issues, which can make it easier for parents and kids to discuss them.
Educational programming can develop young children's socialization and learning skills News, current events and historical programming can help make young people more aware of other cultures and people. There should be time limits and monitoring of programs being watched, television can be useful; it can be a good source of entertainment.It depend on us that how we use the programms or information given by the television to us.
Television is not the bad thing it is we who make tv the bad thing.
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