(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.
Annaly Aviles Jeremy Voigt AP English, July 26, 2012 What life is now? In the novel “Amusing ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman, he indicates that the television has greatly impacted our culture. The main big argument that Postman has, is how television has overcome the printed word. This has become a big problem because it has greatly affected economics, politics, religion, and education. Children are so used television entertaining them that they expect the teachers to entertain them the same way, so they are unable to learn as they would without television.
As Brain Williams writes in "Enough about you", depending on the type of show, television was made to “already agree with your views.”(473). that goes along with the type of commercials that channel plays also. Say for instance you are watching Nickelodeon; you won’t see Victoria Secret commercials playing. You will more than likely see things geared toward children such as Luck Charms or Toy R Us commercial, more family oriented content. The problem advertiser’s face with traditional media is the fact that if a consumer does not find interest and what that product is they can easily change the channel and find something that does.
The central claim of Steven Johnson’s article would be that watching TV makes you smarter. Steven Johnson states, “…the culture is getting more cognitively demanding, not less.” The author is trying to point out that to follow today’s television shows are a lot more complicated than shows back in the day. “24” as an example, before watching any random episode you would need to know the characters, make social connections between characters, and so on and so forth. Steven Johnson hopes that the readers will feel smarter for watching TV after reading his article. For
Censorship Today in America Censorship is used in various ways in the telecommunicating world TV for example. The United States has so much control over the things we watch on television because of censorship. Censorship is used on television to block derogatory comments or views that said to be inappropriate to children under the age of 17. The broadcasting networks tightened up on programs in language and nudity in the late 90’s. Censorship is used in television by ratings such as General audience, Parental Guidance Suggested, PG-13 strongly advises guidance for children under age 13 and R requires accompaniment by an adult for children under age 17, or 18 in some states.
Basically people who want censorship to be more strict want, “protection of minors from pornographic material, protection of information/intelligence of National Security including information regarding the Military (weapons tech, enemy knowledge, etc. ), promotes good morals, prevents grossly violent messages/events from being delivered, prevents spread of harmful information”. (Web pages) The subject most concentrated on is the protection of children but the other four things are taken very seriously. Parents are unhappy with some things their children are watching even on children' TV programs such as Nickelodeon and cartoon network. Not everyone feels like censorship should be more strict, that's why today this topic is a popular one to debate.
Newton Minnow’s in his speech also refers to the idea television has the ability to influence people. He focuses mainly on children and that the content on TV does not benefit them. He emphasizes the fact that children, in 1961, spend as much time watching TV as they do in the school room. So Minnows asks the questions “is there no room on television to teach, to inform, to uplift, to stretch, to enlarge the capacities of our children? Is there no room for programs deepening their understanding of children in other lands” To relate Minnows to the current study of private broadcasting I will ask, If the goal of private broadcasting is suppose to ensure a more adequate performance of Canadian content to target all areas of the demographic population, do you think Canadian broadcasters have done an effective job?
Kids and Education John Taylor Gatto states his thesis “Why Schools Don’t Educates” that two institutions control children’s lives: Television and school. The reader must accept that no fact for the balance of the article to make sense. One has to agree that pressure and parental guidance are of minor influence. However, assuming that the massive amount of time he claims is spent watching television is correct, it quickly becomes clear that the place to begin to help a child grow intellectually would be to severely limit the fantasy world of television. Fifty six hours a week is amazing.
Imagine a kid solving a puzzle -which will help to develop his brain- instead of watching TV; also this kind of activities will keep him safe from violence. Ratings: I have seen a TV channel specifying violence ratings, I cannot recall the channel but every time I see it has violence on it I change the channel. We shouldn’t have to watch a program to see if it is violent. Sometime we start watching a program just to see if it appropriate or not to watch and then we realized that even it has violence we watched the entire TV show I think ratings will work just
I would like to focus on the effects of educational television on children. Mr. Steven Johnson’s, Sleeper Curve Theory and the idea of television vs books. Let’s discuss the effects of television on the pre-toddler to pre-school level children. Television is a great source of fundamental knowledge for these future world leaders and scholars. At the early stages in their young lives where reading is not really their strong point, the visual stimulation of pretty colors, shapes, and exciting sounds of educational TV shines the brightest.