is television a bad fuence on society?

Question

it is good or bad

Answer 1

What is a fuence?

Answer 2

It undoubtably has a very powerful influence on society. News, political and current affairs programmes, soaps, discussion type programmes, in particular, can be used to indoctrinate viewers into accepting the social and political views of the broadcasters. This is usually very cleverly done, and, in the case of news programmes, opinion can be dressed up as fact.

Consider the newscaster in the studio, who calls upon a collegue out in the field, not only to report back factually on what has occurred regarding a particular incident, but to comment on what might happen if a hypothetical set of circumstances were to occur in relation to the same event. ie, extrapolation. This happens frequently, and when it does, the reporter has moved away from reporting news to giving us an opinion. The distinction between the two, however, tends to be blurred, and the less sophisticated viewer will not recognise the difference. The reporting on Iraq is a classic example.

The answer to your question will depend on whether you agree with the particular social/political spin that broadcast channels choose to give us. That assumes, however, that you are savvy, and recognise that there is a spin being put on the material broadcast. Because channels one through five, are 'left of centre', I am personally angered by the spin they put on things.

If you consider that reporting should be neutral, or, for some programmes, balanced, then you would need a set of criteria to assess programmes by. Although, there is good and bad in broadcasting, I think that television is at it's worst when it is clearly pursuing a particular social/political agenda.

Currently, in Britain, I think that the balance is toward it being bad, simply because it is biased toward the left and/or Political correctness. To improve things, particularly in the case of the state broadcaster, the BBC, anti bias monitoring measures must be put in place. Because it has a duty to be impartial.

Answer 3

Its both. Where would we be without all the news coverage, the wonderful nature documentaries, the history channel.Equally there are too many ridiculous soul destroying programmes like "reality tv shows" rubbish movies which bring porn and savagery into the home. However television is not nearly as bad an influence as the internet has the potential to be .

Answer 4

Television is in many ways a bad influence on society. What they used to show after the 'Watershed' they now show before and the barriers are coming down alarmingly. We need far greater controls on TV where children are concerned, and far less of the chav culture. When you think how educational and constructive this medium could be, it is quite shameful the amount of poor quality and shoddy programmes we get for out license fee.

Answer 5

theres a reason why it is called programming . there are some good things to watch on tv but generally it is the worst thing that happened to the 20th century it brain washes people from a very early age ,it divides familly in the way that many people have a tv in every room and most children have a tv in there room , TV influences opinion in a major way through government controlled media . people work there nuts off all day read news corporation owned and controlled news papers ,they go home sit down eat there processed food and zombie out in front of the TV, while not really being informed of what is actually going on around them and not really caring .

what you have to realise is that TV ,Media ,Mass produced food , and vaccinations just dumb down . in many forms TV is bad .

heres how who and why : http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230&q=terrorstorm

Answer 6

Bad influence!!! Too much violence...murders...too much coverage of crime in general, almost to the point of glorifying it. Five prostitutes killed and we all had to watch it day in day out leading up to Christmas...they had a choice..get off the fcucking drugs and get off the streets. They had more than their 15 minutes of fame and now some other stupid little cows will think that is right because the whole of the country was watching and thinking it was sad....it was avoidable.

Answer 7

good and bad....but like most developments..once theyve happened you can never see people going back to what came before.

i think tv is the adult version of a dummy.

its frightening to think how many people are doing nothing after work, other than sitting in front of the tv, and letting their precious time slip away watching utter drivel.

Answer 8

Tv is not a bad fuence on society.

Answer 9

Television id good in many ways, but, T.V. can also be abused.

Answer 10

Definitiely a bad influence on society.

People were much happier when we just had radio and the cinema,

Answer 11

influence
and of course not whats it ever done it only gets the message across its the internet thats can spread bad messages but id still rather have it