Majority of Americans have a television in their homes. Everyday, people are watching television that they forget to spend time with their own children and their spouses. Forget about hello, how was your day? Americans are so immune with their television; they forget there are other family members living in the household. Nowadays, people and children are more focused on television; they are physically and mentally influenced by what they view on the TV.
The common day for an American is coming home after their long day at work and turning on the television, either watching their favorite shows or watching the news. For instance, a mother whose spouse is over in Iraq will automatically turn on the news channel and see what is going on in the Middle East. Most of the times, the media will portray the story line negatively. This will obviously have an affect to this hard working mother. Maybe she’ll take it out on the kids or have a panic attack. Perhaps, a young innocent child was watching a violent show on television. This child then starts to act out like the character on the show.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans watched the Elections this year. One representative would bad mouth the other representative. An example would be the Elections in Tennessee. Supposedly, Corker placed an offending ad to his competitor, Ford. It was all over the news. CNN news said it was a racist ad and then MSN news said it was a sexual explicit ad. We as the viewers were confused and our opinions were based on the news that we enjoy watching.
Psychologists have studied by watching and being around negative people has an affect on others especially with children. When we watch television, we don’t realize the negative impact it has on us. What should we do us as a society to prevent this negative influential in our lives? We should limit ourselves and prohibit negative shows being watched on our television sets.
2006-11-29
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