In ther essay, Winn describes television as a “decline of family life in America” and “damaging to family relationships”. Although she obtains strong supporting evidence within her work, I find pleasure in contradicting her opinion as she misinterprets the influence of television upon American families. In her essay she states her opinion of television’s influence upon modern day families. Winn questions her readers as she uses the statements, ”When do they talk about what they did that day? When do they make plans, exchange, views, share jokes, tell about their triumphs or little disasters?
I would definitely say that Comedy Central's Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report are part of the "media" that affects people’s opinion. These television shows are a way to provide comedic relief to the issues our economy faces; however, these shows still have an impact of how the viewer will understand an issue at hand. It is very difficult for anyone to be completely unbiased and with constantly hearing other people’s opinion through the media. We cannot make a decision of how “we” feel about the topic. Thus, democracy and a fair voting group become tainted.
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.
There is several important news that needs to be heard and seen, but the TV news wants to bring in more audiences. In other words, the TV news would rather talk about cliché or useless topics instead of talking about the crucial events that had occurred, just for high ratings. Obviously, this shows that TV news want to make stories interesting by either talking about random topics or simply making an exaggerated story; thus, TV news are always biased when it comes to telling a
Furthermore, it’s very likely these people just choose to make this child suffer because of its predisposition. “Perhaps it was born defective, or perhaps it has become imbecile through fear, malnutrition, and neglect”. (Omelas, 260). In addition it seems as though the suffering imposed in this story is not to benefit the town but to benefit those who abuse the child through neglect and spectating. “One of them may come in and kick the child to make it stand up”.
Lisa, their smart daughter, is unpopular at school. Many people in the US and in many other countries of the world are audiences of these kind of television programs that rampantly depict untrue yet popular stereotypes. People begin to have perceived views and even prejudices due to these depicted stereotypes. Stereotypes created by the media take away our individuality and instead, provides us with a common identity. When this happens, there is an erosion of our personal uniqueness.
Sturgeon gives examples of films and TV shows that have negative effects on children. She criticizes our culture for feeding our kids with stereotypes at a young age by saying, “We need to be aware of theses dominant cultural messages may undermine the understanding of environmental justice issues we want to promote” (Sturgeon 575). Sturgeon is causing the reader to acknowledge that popular culture has an effect on young people, and we need to be aware of everything that we see on television and
At such a young age, children shouldn’t be exposed to such things. These pageants make the contestants an easy target for paedophiles. These competitions are exploiting these young children to sex at such a young age. These children are covered in make-up, and have photo shopped entry photos which take them away from their natural beauty. This makes their image more sexually inappropriate for their age.
It is necessary to take a closer look at whether or not violence in the media really is responsible for this development and then to examine what censorship may entail before taking such a far-reaching decision. Many concerned people, ranging from worried parents through to reputable psychologists, deplore the ever-present nature of violence in the media, claiming that this is the reason why people are increasingly prepared to commit violent acts. They argue that violence is being propagated as normal or even entertaining. Violence is in the newspapers, on the news, in film plots and in cartoons. Violence is a source of laughter in children's programs; films present it as staple fare; it is served as pseudo-information in sensation-hungry newspapers and on reality TV; and it is even glorified by some musicians in their lyrics and performances.
One reason Reality TV is considered bad for society is because it is mostly viewed by the younger generation which is easy to persuade by painting unrealistic and inappropriate portraits. A lot of explicit activity is being displayed as well as disrespect and crime to a certain extinct. Not to mention the number of hours reality shows are available in a twenty four hour period and the negative effect they are portraying creating promiscuous behaviors of family trends reflecting poor morals. Studies have showed since children are the easiest to manipulate as mentioned earlier, they are the biggest viewers. Not to say television is not the only contributor to negative development in children but it is a big one.