Television: A Distortion of Reality Television has become a false reality for millions of Americans and the majority of the global society. “The use of television to promote primarily materialistic values has become a severe, although largely unacknowledged, mental health and public health problem for the United States and the world” (Elgin 105). Duane Elgin speaks about the impact of television on the youth of our nation and how it is “being used to promote mindless consumerism around the planet” (Elgin 104). The negative effects of television are clear, and the reality is that this communication device is changing the important values of the global youth. The lucid shift in values has been from developing a meaningful philosophy in life to being well-off financially.
The U.S. Gov. is just trying to protect its people from doing the wrong things in society and trying to hinder the act of violence which is proven to increase with the violence on television through heinous acts of violence. With the way society is today it would be best if the United States stayed censoring televisions. The dramatic change in society is going to be the reason that censorship goes from bad to worse right now it’s to most standard of sensory. Works Cited Censorship."
Finally, illegal substances are supported, such as marijuana and cocaine, through comedic gestures. The criteria used for social humour in these sitcoms are politically incorrect and are unacceptable forms of humour. Most of the audience that watches “rude TV”, such as Family Guy and American Dad, are at too young of an age to be responsible and mature enough to watch the shows. A lot of them will get influenced negatively; they will be convinced to learn the ill manners and shamelessness supported in the shows, because they are thought to be humorous, the coarse language is taken lightly as well teaching the audience to use it as well to be humorous. The Parents Television Council released a list of the 20 most popular shows among kids from ages 2-17.
Argument: For Jeff Jacoby, writer of “A Desensitized Society Drenched in Sleaze,” violent entertainment indirectly causes real life violence. He states that even with his highly religious and disciplined background he was “jaded” from exposure to violent TV. he thinks that if he can be desensitized, then anyone can be desensitized. With that thought, Jacoby may have a valid point. If exposed to violent TV for an extended amount of time, it may be able to desensitize anyone, especially if they come from an already broken home or bad neighborhood.
Ridiculous television statistics, youth corruption, and the need for “TV Turnoff Week” prove that television is an evil. Americans waste too many hours watching television. Trubey states that the average American youth spends one thousand five hundred hours
Sue Palmer is another sociologist that believes the increasing impact of technology and the media over the past 50 years is causing childhood to deteriorate. Palmer argues that in modern society there is a ‘toxic childhood’ due to an excessively screen-based culture which she feels is why there has been an increase in developmental conditions in children. She has reasons for some of these conditions, for example ADHD could be caused to screen saturation as the rapid changes of images on TV can make an immature brain go into overdrive resulting in the child seeing real life as boring. Palmer also believes the increase in screen-based activities has made it more difficult for children to develop literacy skills. Also Palmer
My thoughts on Television are my generation is centred around the fear of the three screens TV sets, lap tops, cell phones. My generation is to naive to notice that TV is the authoritarian society’s dream come true. Television pumps fear into my generation by getting us to purchases for example The Acne commercials, they started playing more of those frighting commercials when school started and their direction was “You don’t want that nasty evil unattractive zit on your face, On the first day of school.” That pumps fear into people, they immediately go buy it. Television not only slows down your brainwaves, it also transform them closer to a hypnotic state that makes it difficult nearly impossible to think critically. “TV isolates people so they
Often viewing un supervised by parents, who have the most authority over what their children view. Over the years the FCC has been loosening its restrictions on violence in television, as a result of a rating system labeling the graphic nature of the show. The problem lies with the ignorance of parenting values on a large portion of our nations populous. Parenting arguably the most significant problem in creating the racial bias that we pertain to blacks and whites in the entertainment industry. Children do not perceive what’s right
After watching Stupidity directed by Albert Nerenberg, Stupidity exposes many conflicts on why people are so stupid and how they are “too dumb” to research the true facts before speaking their mind out to the public. Stupidity features interviews of the average people on what stupidity means to them. According to the film, the main reason why people are stupid is mostly for entertainment. People want to do the craziest things they can possibly do so that they can see their face come on the morning news. The media has a huge control on what is being watched on television.
I strongly believe the confronting, forceful way some advertisements, such as the new 2013 campaign Breathless do convince a small portion of society to quit. I think the harsh reality that these advertisements demonstrate would be hard to ignore. However that is only a small portion of people affected by these shocking advertisements, the rest of the population switch television stations. I see people buying cigarette packets all the time. I often think how can they buy these packets when the pictures on them are awful.