Q. Hi. Please could you give me some information on the issue of cause and effect in tv.? Is television a threat to society? Thanks
Right...I'll give you lots of ideas, and you decide how to use them. I'll try to mix negative and positive features if I can as your argument will presumably need to look at both sides inorder to be balanced.
* company - lots of people live alone, or live in isolated communities, and the tv is a comfort to them
* entertainment - there are lots of entertaining programmes on, for fun, which help people to pass the time, or to relax at the end of the day
* source of information - local and international news
* educational - lots of programmes designed to teach, not only little children but Open University and cooking programmes/D.I.Y., school programmes etc.
* copycat crime - now that we have less power to regulate the times people watch certain programmes (Sky/Cable/videos/tv.s in bedrooms etc.) unsuitable programmes can and are being watched by young children (or simply unsuitable people) and then being brought into real-life. The most tragic example of this would be the Jamie Bulger murder, but there have been lots of other examples of children having watched a gruesome video or whatever and then acting it out in life
* wasting time - too often, the tv is the box never switched off. People find it hard to discriminate and end up watching everything regardless of whether it's entertaining or educational etc.
* a slice of life - the soap operas which are the staple diet of most viewers' diet, encourages us to watch life being performed rather than actually living life ourselves
* communication and family life - many argue that tv. has destroyed (or helped to) the family unit. No more dinners together, no more talks about the day etc.; now we eat infront of the tv. and we often watch programmes on our own in our own rooms etc.
There...I'm sure this will have got you stated!
P.S. I hate television (but don't tell Channel 4!)
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Monica1981
发布于2007-12-29 00:50:41