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Television is One of the Greatest Inventions?

I wonder how people can even watch television. Television was and will always be just a marketing tool for corporations and businesses to brainwash their viewers into wanting or even needing to purchase their items. In my opinion, even before cable television, it was not created as entertainment for everyone, television stations made money by selling air time for commercials. Television shows were only meant to attract an audience for these commercials. Almost everything on TV is an exaggeration of the truth. How can people even believe anything from it? Just because it’s on the news makes it true? Not only that but we see a commercial on TV and we get sucked into buying that particular product. I also believe television has made our world overweight. Do you want entertainment? Go outside and play baseball or just stay in and read a book. Even today, more and more books have been made into movies. People are too lazy to open a book and learn something for themselves.
Recent inventions have been created to merely keep people lazy and to cut time in half. If you don’t want to take a whole two or three days to read a good book, just go to a video store and buy the movie to watch the same book in two hours. If you want to get to that video store, chances are you will drive instead of walk or ride a bike. We are teaching ourselves to be overweight and unhealthy. If you’re hungry, you drive to a fast food restaurant because it’s quick and easy, instead of going to the grocery store and buying ingredients to cook your own food. If you want entertainment, you’re most likely going to drive to the movie theater to watch something in a few hours and go home thinking your satisfied, instead of reading that good book. How many times have you watched TV and have seen grocery store commercial or commercials for books? I personally have not seen too many. Although, there are tons of commercials promoting obesity and violence; for example, McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy‘s and shows like CSI and Law & Order. They look entertaining but who’s watching them? It’s all aired on prime time television, after school’s let out and after the everyday person gets off of work. Why must we pollute our minds with the rubbish we see on television? I would love it if television ceased to exist. What would people do? Step outside and actually interact with each other; coexist?
As far as the local or “world” news, how do we even know it’s factual, because our news anchor says so? If people just opened their eyes and did the research on their own I’m sure they would learn much more than what our friend, the television, tells us. Everything is regulated that we watch on television so we watch what the government wants us to watch. Over all I feel that the world would most likely be healthier and happier with out television.

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Television is One of the Greatest Inventions?

I wonder how people can even watch television. Television was and will always be just a marketing tool for corporations and businesses to brainwash their viewers into wanting or even needing to purchase their items. In my opinion, even before cable television, it was not created as entertainment for everyone, television stations made money by selling air time for commercials. Television shows were only meant to attract an audience for these commercials. Almost everything on TV is an exaggeration of the truth.
I believe television has made our world overweight. Instead of coming home from work or school and sitting down with a TV dinner to watch your favorite TV show, go outside and play baseball or go for a walk. In 2006 the average television per household was 110 million, compared with 76 million households in 1980. In my opinion, it just shows how much more lazy our country has gotten in time. Also, 98.2 percent of Americans have a television set in their household and has been unchanged since 1999.
Television is also known to be bad for your eyesight. CRT (cathode ray tube) television screens are bad for your eyes because they emit small amounts of harmful radiation, besides just light. The LCD (liquid-crystal display) and Plasma screens do not emit this radiation. However, the brightness of these screens can still be hard on your eyes. On the newer screens you can adjust your backlight appropriately and you should have some ambient light, otherwise your eyes work harder to adjust to the great difference between the darkness around you. I personally think reading a book or going outside to do an activity would be a much healthier choice.
Purchasing a TV has become more and more expensive the more technology improves. Even though the currency rate has inflated over time, I feel the prices of televisions have gotten outrageous. Americans could be spending their hard earned money on better foods and activities instead of that giant 56 inch plasma TV fully equipped with their satellite cable. As if the first 15 channels weren’t good enough, people have to feed their addiction and spend more money on another 600 channels. In 2006 73.2 million households indulged in cable television. Try to think about how much money you would save if you eliminated your TV expenses.
Others disagree with my opinions and are blind to the facts about their precious televisions. Television enables those who would otherwise be ignorant or lazy become at least marginally informed. For people who follow the news, television is a very good instrument for accessing local and world wide information. Some television shows are entertainment for adults as well as children and there are select stations that are even educational. As far as it being unhealthy for your eyes, watching television in moderation and at a reasonable distance wouldn’t make it so harmful. Money-wise, if people would just purchase one television per household with just basic television or even basic cable, it wouldn’t be as expensive as the biggest and best TV on the market. Also, if I recall there is a fitness show available on basic TV and if you do just purchase the basic cable, there are fitness channels to keep yourself healthy and active.
In conclusion, I personally feel that television makes what could be an intelligent race into an ignorant society. I feel there are too many negatives compared to positives towards television. Life without television would be healthier, happier and I think people would be more interactive with each other; like the world should be. If things were how they used to be before television was invented, people wouldn’t be rushing to the grocery store to purchase that quick and easy dinner; i.e. frozen dinners or any microwavable meal, to watch their favorite TV shows of the night. How much of what we watch do we know is actually truthful? That’s partially why I feel that people need to get out there and read books and the newspaper and research things themselves. That way we don’t have to rely on TV to tell us what to believe. People just need to learn to rely on themselves for the truth.

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