POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF TELEVISION

A good way of spend your time is watching TV, and as everything, it has positive effects and negative effects.

You can find a lot of different genres when you are channel surfing, it’s up to you what do you want to watch, to learn. There are some channels that for me are interesting, like sport channels and news channels, if I want to watch a movie I have internet and I can watch whatever I want. Also there are a lot of educational and scientist channels like Discovery, History Channel, etc. Watching this kind of channels it’s difficult to find a negative effect, one of them could be an addiction, but you are addict to something that “is not bad”.

Let’s talk about television news. I used to watch news in Colombia and there you can find 2 principal public channels, one of these channels supports one political side, and of course the other channel supports another politic side. 

Without generalizing, you can’t trust everything that you watch-hear on TV news, you should find out from different sources such as radio, newspaper. To conclude, it’s our problem what we want to learn, is not television is HOW we use it, so think about it and reflex, are you taking advantage of TV? Or, is TV taking advantage of you?