Some people in today’s society think TV is not good for you, but in Steven Johnson’s Watching TV Makes You Smarter, hemakes the argument that TV is very complex. He talks about how multiple threading in TV shows have many cognitive benefits. He also says thattelevision today makes you think more than it did previously. Overall TV affects people in more positive ways than they realize. Steven Johnson makes the argument that multiple threading has a positive impact on television today.Johnson believes that the show Hill Street Blues successfully had a combination of a complex narrative structure and complex subject matter.
The use of vulgar language is at an all-time high, and the level of self-respect is zero, and ratings are through the roof. Allowing kids and young teens to watch shows like this make it seem ok. They believe that getting pregnant as a teen, fighting, being disobedient and doing drugs is the norm. Seeing TV that glorifies this behavior can
Children's television viewing should be limited to less than 2 hours a day in order to avoid too many negative effects. Violence is something that is hard for children to avoid on television today. Children are at risk of viewing this violence because they are watching more than the suggested amount of television. When children see this violence, they think it is cool and fun, so they want to try it out. They are taught that the images of violence are amusing.
Around ninety-nine percent of families in America own a television, which means they watch TV a little bit each day. So Steven Johnson is writing to a very big audience and tries to persuade to them that watching TV makes you smarter. He starts out his article with a conversation of two scientists from the Woody Allen’s movie Sleeper. The script was supposed to be an opening joke because in the movie all the food that is supposed to be bad for you, turned out to be good for you in the future. The central claim of Steven Johnson’s article would be that watching TV makes you smarter.
“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.
SpongeBob SquarePants There are many people who have been at work all day who just want to come home and relax while lying on the sofa enjoying a good television show. Unfortunally, it may be difficult for some people who have children to do this. Why is this? Most children usually tend to need some sort of entertainment and most parents would not want to leave them outside without some sort of supervision. So, what do some parents do to get their so-called "relaxation" time?
Vulgar language routinely appears in programs and movies which is accessible to youth. It is realistic and believable to younger youth which can lead them to aggressiveness. As with our American youth viewing these ideas, these images are imposed on the viewers, especially the younger generation. There is a huge amount of younger children that sit and watch television for many hours. In doing that it will handicap their brains.
Since the advent of cable television, there have been more and more fascinating programs sticking viewers, especially children, into the screen. This, therefore, creates certain complaints that it is wasteful your time watching TV. However, with all the benefits it provides, television is really worth watching. One of the strength points making television much more preferable than other means of information – supply, such as newspaper and radio, is that it can provide news together with animated pictures and lively sounds. Thus, viewers can get more details of the news and enjoy it much more than reading lots of words in newspaper or listen to voices on radio only.
shows, vitiates the purity and innocence of young minds. On the internet, children under the age of 18 can enter adult websites; such as Xtube, Fakku, and Redtube. Sure they ask for the age when you first enter the site, but lying is always possible. Though many people argue that it’s up to the kids to decide what they want to watch the rated contents or not, but if there is no internet then the kids wouldn’t even be watching it in the first place. Maybe adult pornography sites don’t apply to every single kid, but how about the violent, gory, and explicit video games that elementary school children play?
The problem is not with watching TV; but with what people are watching. A lot of TV shows promote violence and aggression or just have stupefied antics. TV has become one of our easiest and main leisure’s in life, a source of ready-made stereotypes and new myths, a passive view of the world thrust on us from the angle of the camera. We hate TV and we love only because we are hooked on it. High quality TV is always a positive.