(289~291) I agree with Johnson’s claim of, Sleeper Curve makes the viewers improve so they Liu 2 can and will want to watch more TV shows. However, watching TV have more factors that make you more stupid than make you smarter. This skill ends up letting people watch more and more TVs, which already is a bad thing, and they become more stupid. First of all, TV shows’ content also is a great factor of being smart which Johnson never talks about. 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.
As the technology era advances, people are gravitating closer to a television where as reading a newspaper is considered an interest from the past. The television audience is failing to realize the main point of T.V., including news programs, is to keep people watching so that sponsors and others can make more money through ratings and increased interest in products. In “How to Watch T.V. News”, Neil Postman and Steve Powers state “Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake” (x), This statement is true, for television news is not solely reporting what actually occurs. Rather it is reporting what T.V.
The use of political campaign through television has been around for quite a while. Broadcasting politics on television allows the elections to be more accessible to a larger amount of viewers. Although politics through media was meant to be positive, the true purpose of it was quickly overcome by a concern about image rather than the issues at hand. Television has allowed presidential candidates to not only win votes through ideas and addressing issues, but also through creating an image for themselves that would appeal to the public. Initially, the use of media to relay news was a good idea: Television has “restored” the nations “feeling of direct contact”, “the people have once more become the nation” (Source A).
Kids do not even rely on the Internet for news. There are too many sources, like video games and ipods that are competing for young people’s attention. Big events like Watergate and September 11th revived public awareness, but only for a short period of time. With people being so isolated and independent, news programs are suffering. A lack of audience causes the media to lose their power, and their watch on political life.
Social Trust is the idea of ‘faith in people’. Today less Americans believe they can rely on their neighbours and people around them than ever before. Putnam view is this is due to the declining numbers joining group activities and never fully explores other reasoning for this, for instance the media. Most news broadcasts lead with negative reports, as bad/devastating news grabs more attention. The medias delivery of a negative viewpoint is bound to have an impact on it subscribers, their view of the world and society could become more
I would like a lot more students to be interested in this book and movie. As of the author writing this book in the 1950’s, the future explained in this book was based on our society now. Now we have the big screen televisions, and internet. Now I don’t think there’s as much readers as there is because of the sources that we have now. I would like this movie, to be just how the book was.
People should be able to decide what they want and don’t want to read. Throughout the years, books like, “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” and “The Catcher in the Rye” have been ridiculed for the way they are written, and the solution is already there and movie ratings are a step to how books should be determined. Huck Finn is, to this day, treated with malevolence for its extensive use of the “N” word. There is certain indignation for the people trying to censor this book, but the books uses that word to show time period and emphasize character. The novel has much to
There was only a simple law, and that was to not read books as well as think, making “the mind drink less and less.” This doesn’t seem much of a sacrifice because society was filled with far more excitement than literature could offer. Meanwhile, new technology helped people do everyday chores and made life simpler, leaving more time for fun. Like Beatty said, “Life is immediate, the job counts, and pleasure lies all about after work.” Entertainment ruled their society. The parlor walls seem like a god compared to our TVs. The seashell radios are convenience at its best.
“Faking is inevitable in television. In fact, all television is fake, and audiences are happy for it to be so.” With ever increasing competition, television channels have to find different tricks to increase their viewership and to fill up timeslots. “Faking” is one of the most common tricks. I have focused mainly on reality shows, live telecast and news telecast for this discussion. I have excluded soap operas or fiction because fiction can have the liberty to divert from reality.
Consequently, this is caused because television restores the feeling of direct contact within our society which causes people to feel like they know their Presidents and therefore cause elections to be in favor of the candidate with the most admiration from the community. Additionally, due to television, elections are now based on what we see and not what we hear. Undoubtedly, the television brings us closer as a community. In brief, television continues to inform us of what happens in our society which was not available to us in the past. According to