She then brings up the issue of unnerving newspaper headlines such as “Bloodlust Video Games Put Kids in the Crosshairs” (205). Sternheimer feels not enough emphasis has been given to other issues such as “social rejection and depression” (206). She also brings our attention to information on statistical evidence. Sternheimer believed it to be “controversial” and feels it “exclude[s] a host of other factors” (207). Sternheimer feels it is these other over looked factors that are truly the cause of “young killers” (210).
Neil Postman believes our society is closer to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World than George Orwell’s 1984 because of our society’s addiction to television. Huxley feared that no one would want to read books and that people would become passive and egotistical. He dreaded the day that the truth would carry little power and pleasure and love would control the public. Huxley’s worries become terrifying realities when one observes how much television has overtaken the American people’s lives. Ridiculous television statistics, youth corruption, and the need for “TV Turnoff Week” prove that television is an evil.
Christian Hahn Mr. Smith AP English October 25, 2013 P2B The Argument against TV During the year 1999 there was an essay, written by Corbett Trubey, about how TV can be bad. The argument he is trying to make was that people should not watch a lot of TV because it is a waste of time and people should find something more productive to do. The intended audience is for college graduates that have a job or a lot of money to pay for expenses. In “Argument against TV” Trubey wants as many people to stop watching TV and enjoy the outdoor activities you could be doing other than watching TV. Trubey uses his own statistics that do not have a reliable source throughout the article.
The big superstars of the teams also get bonus for scoring a touchdown, making a basket, making a goal, and getting on base. The fans want to watch a game in person not on television, but they can’t afford to go to the games because the ticket prices are too expensive, so they have to sit at home watching the game. Owners of team franchises have to pay their athletes so much because of the countless hours of hard work they put in year around. “Many athletes put in over 40 hours a week with practices, study, workouts, and game time” (bleacherreport.com). The countless hours over many years takes toll on their bodies is why they should make as much as they.
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.
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.
In analyzing Dr. Grohol’s article, “The Debilitating Effects of TV on Children”, the main purpose is to portray the harm that watching television has on children during their childhood and the effects throughout their future. He argues that television is an unhealthy activity by comparing it to cigarette smoking, which is a harmful activity that society continues to whitewash. What is worse is that children are exposed to it as if it were as innocent as playing with their toys. Grohol, J. (2009).
“That’s not the way the media wants to take it and spin it and turn it into fear because then your watching television… news and your being pumped full of fear… it’s a campaign of fear and consumption- interview” How this alters my perspective> the media isn’t always reliable and it can be very inaccurate and misleading. It also changes my perspective in the way that the media has the power to change the way people think and believe in. Third paragraph: *The irony that the government doesn’t get blamed for the gun violence when they frequently get involved in foreign affairs (Archival footage & music) 1963-1975: American military kills 4 million civilians in south East Asia. 1991: American planes bombs Iraq on a weekly basis 2001: Osama Bin Laden uses expert CIA training to murder 3000 people. “I think that’s really ironic that nobody said maybe the president had any influence on this violent behavior.”- Interview How this alters my perspective: thinking that the government always tries to help, this makes it very contradicting, the govt.
Cookies or Heroin Some people think that television has a negative influence on our society and that it changes people. In the argumentative essay “Cookies or Heroin”, Marie Winn relates watching television to having an addiction to drugs and alcohol, which it blots out the real world. In my perspective some people find television irresistible and that it brings peace in their lives to help them escape from the real world. Marie’s argument is that television is a drug that interferes with family’s everyday life and to be sure other experiences like reading, also provide a temporary respite from reality. In the essay, Winn’s problem with T V is that “television experience allows the participant to blot out the real world and enter into a pleasurable
I was raised in a poor town in Mexico where there were not televisions. We used our free time trying to invent new games or play innocent games with our neighbors. After I got to school it was very clear the difference between kids that had TV and those who didn’t. Some of the influenced kids used to imitate bad jokes they had saw on TV. We couldn’t imitate those because we didn’t have TV, we could