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[saurabhjain]

Is television a good thing or a bad thing?

For Television

Television has alot of educational programs on it such as wildlife programs, the history of many countries and other things that could be deemed educational to people.

Television can be social. You can play games against your friends on a games console that is connected to your T.V (Most larger consoles anyway). You can bring friends around to watch a football match and other such things.

Television can also show you many wonders of the world. The discovery channel looks at many different places in the world. It can open our eyes to the world around us. Different cultures/lifestyles that if we were to have no television would never experience.

These are some of the good things that television offers, now a look at the side effects/the negatives...

Against Television

Television has been proved to be detrimental to your health. It has been shown in recent clinical studies that it reduces your awareness and your creativity.

Television can be social but it is also deemed anti-social. The reason for this is because someone can go without contact with other people for a long time while watching television. It takes away the community when there is a television in every home.

Television is one of the major causes of obesity throughout the world. Instead of exercising, people would rather sit down and watch hours of T.V.

Television can also ruin your social life by changing the way you socialise with people. Television soaps can do this, they are only fictional and people can get caught up with their methods.

So what do you think about television, is it a bad thing that should be limited down or a good thing and that current television is good for life?

[Silence]

i will go for television is bad

Television is bad because people get addicted to it. TV addiction corrupts the mind and isolates you from the world and ruins your judgement in life. The media also spreads societal propaganda further influencing the masses because of it's importance and addiction. Examples of propaganda either are societal and political. Examples are racism, sexism, stereotypes, nationalism, democracy, socialism, materialism, violence, and commercial deception

Television when watched irresponsibly can be dangerous to our minds and bodies.  Watching too much television is a big problem in this country. Television also has a bad influence on young people, which can lead to crime.  Everyone should try to stop watching television; it is a path to poor health and unhappiness


Do you know we are ruled by TV?"
-- from the poem An American Prayer by Jim Morrison

"They put an off button on the TV for a reason. Turn it off . . . I really don't watch much TV."
-- President George W. Bush, C-SPAN interview, January 2005

"American children and adolescents spend 22 to 28 hours per week viewing television, more than any other activity except sleeping. By the age of 70 they will have spent 7 to 10 years of their lives watching TV."
-- The Kaiser Family Foundation

"You watch television to turn your brain off and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on."
-- Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer and Pixar, in Macworld Magazine, February 2004

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[smartkey]

I agree with your point vimala...
It's harmful if television is being watched for more than sufficient time. and nowadays news chanels are doing marketing of many business ideas.. rather than providing reality..

For example you can see the difference between door-darshan and the cable paid chanels

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[kalpa]

TELEVISION IS GOOD THING.


Television is an inescapable part of modern culture. We depend on TV for entertainment, news, education, culture, weather, sports