Talk Shows... Good or Bad Influence ?

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Barbara Ehrenreich has defended the V talk shows of the Sally Jessy. She expresses her views about the T.V shows and says that this T.V shows are forums that are just to urge the middle-class qualities of responsibility, self-control and the reasons. She writes about the things that happened at Montel Williams show and supports her argument by describing the show. In that show a woman, Susan appeared and said that she was stalked by her boyfriend and later on it was proved that she was also stalking. Then every body at the show helped Susan realize the mistake. She was also helped a therapist during the show, in the end she was seen ashamed for what she had been doing. Barbara Ehrenreich’s main purpose of writing that article is to support this kind of T.V shows that are creating awareness in people. She says this type of shows make people realize their responsibility in the society. She talks about different matters discussed in different talk shows, like, "mate wants more sex than I do" and "a hundred sex partners". Basically she advocates these types of shows because people express their feelings there and in the end they get some solution for their matters either with the help of audience or any specialist like the therapist in Montel Williams show. Further, she talks about the variety of the matters that are discussed in these types of shows. She says that the matters which are mostly discussed are poverty, unpaid bills, Job double-shifts and welfare. She reveals that the people who are poor enough are exploited in the shows. They are given money to come at the show and express their feelings to entertain the audience. The poor people are compelled to talk even about their sex secrets just for the money they are offered. She criticizes this type of class exploitation of poor people and says that if she was supposed to host a talk show, she would call the
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