Pros/cons effects of television
"The American people don't believe anything
until they see it on television"
Richard Nixon.
I would like to begin talking about the positive and negative
aspects of television with the Nixon`s sentence above. I think that it is the
absolute true, not only about the American people but good part of the world
population, and there`s where the problem lives. Anybody can watch anything on
television at any time of the day, from the poorest family who haven`t gone to
school and don`t have the critical power to judge what`s right or wrong to the
richest one who have a solid opinion about political and economic issues as
well as an active life in relation to them.
Propagandas are the most common way to mass manipulate and
television is the perfect kind of media they are looking for once the mass is
always watching it and as Nixon said, Americans (not only them) believe
anything they see on television. Of course it has its benefits, I mean, when
television first appeared in the house of families It was revolutionary, a kind
of media that could bring news from anywhere in the world happening at that
exact moment through images was really impressive, even nowadays there`s a lot
of good stuff we could say television has to offer like valuable information
about an enormous variety of subjects, but In the other hand, for children
television can be really harmful if they are watching it for a long period of
time, people need to keep in mind that the kids brains are still under
development.
To sum everything up, I think that the television have a lot
of good aspects as well as negative ones and that the most important one is
when it comes to mass manipulation which is a negative one and there`s a lot of
reasons why I think that, however I don`t think I have the space to debate that
here but I think I made kind of a point here :)
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