Steven Johnson’s article called “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” directs his writing to the audience of people who watch television, with the claim that watching television makes you smarter. On the other hand Dana Stevens’ article called “Thinking Outside the Idiot Box” disagrees with Johnson’s article and claims watching TV does not make you smarter. Steven Johnson seems to believe that watching TV makes you smarter. He released an article to the audience of people who watch television. Around ninety-nine percent of families in America own a television, which means they watch TV a little bit each day.
Sometimes gone without notice, multimedia such as TV, movies, CDs, DVDs, sports events, and streaming video have become competition for Nederlander. The comfort of home is a big competitor, especially since technology has made it possible to watch “Live TV”, Netflix, and having theatre-quality home entertainment systems, sport games where you can rewind for a replay, and even music at home without getting off of the couch. The National Endowment for the Arts’ latest Survey of Public Participation in the Arts did a study and theatre attendance has dropped nearly 6% and is still dropping (Teachout). Nederlander has to constantly find a way to advertise well enough to convince people how going to a movie theatre, concert, etc. is better than sitting at home on the couch.
In “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” when he talked about the show 24, he ignored the content of the show like the torture scenes, and go straight to the Sleeper Curve. (278) He should talk about the scene because it is also an important factor of being smart or not. South Park is a TV show which
If you ask them about the operation on “ER” last night and they can probably tell you in full detail. If you miss your favorite show, you can now TiVo it and watch whenever you want. Not only that, it will record other television shows the television thinks you might like also. You do not even have to go to the movies anymore; you can just order it on demand and for much cheaper than going to the theater. Families are no longer watching television
It seems to me that throughout the years TV has become more popular, and most people have at least one TV in their house. Comparing Fahrenheit 451 to our world exposed how close we are to becoming like them. With the government controlling us, ad our addiction to TV; we have to battle against ourselves to prevent becoming like the world of 451. We do have our differences to 451, because we do not burn books. I find it I retesting that Bradbury wrote this book in 1953 and does an excellent job at predicting what todays society would be like.
The surge in plastic surgery is an indication that television conveys a certain image. Television defines what is beautiful and what is not through its advertisers; it also attempts to define what is and what is not an acceptable. Thereby it sends the message that those who do not live at a certain level or in a particular manner are not an acceptable part of mainstream society.” Some say that if television has a negative effects do not watch television and find other means of entertainment. However, thirty-five percent of television users say that television is good for the American society. The debate as to whether the impact is positive or negative has been taking place since the inception of the TV in the late 1940’s.
Imagine a kid solving a puzzle -which will help to develop his brain- instead of watching TV; also this kind of activities will keep him safe from violence. Ratings: I have seen a TV channel specifying violence ratings, I cannot recall the channel but every time I see it has violence on it I change the channel. We shouldn’t have to watch a program to see if it is violent. Sometime we start watching a program just to see if it appropriate or not to watch and then we realized that even it has violence we watched the entire TV show I think ratings will work just
Seating is always something you should consider when it comes to sporting events. Seating at a typical sport event consists of metal bleachers. The bleachers at the events are not usually comfortable; if you have back problems, you probably would not enjoy watching the game from the bleachers. It would be much more pleasing to you to stay home and watch from the comfort of your own couch. If you view the game from your home, some televisions allow you to pause and rewind live television.
The popular rise of baseball, boxing, and football were broadcasted over local radio stations to be heard at home. This gave America new generations of heroes. Babe Ruth, Carl Mays, and Hones Wagner were all major sport heroes of the time. Nickelodeon movie theatres, were made in the early 1900’s but were made famous in the 20’s with everyone’s new found free time since the allowed time to work each day was a max of 8 hours. So in the spare time they went to go see a silent film, which is a movie with no audio maybe an overlay of music, then it goes to a text screen you read the text that goes with the next clip then the video
One way we can advertise the college is by television. Many teenagers watch a lot of television these days. So advertising our college campaigns during their shows would be a great way to persuade into coming to our college. We also have to put the commercials at the right channel as well. We do not want to put our advertisements during a cooking show channel or during a dog show.