Is Television a Good or Bad Influence?

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Is Television a Good or Bad Influence?

In the year of 1926 a man called John Lougie Baird had invented something that has become part of the day-to-day lifestyle of nearly everyone.  He had successfully tested it in a laboratory in late 1925 and unveiled with much fanfare in London in early 1926, and later mechanical television was quickly usurped by electronical television.  Over the years television has developed greatly, going from black and white to coloured and ranging greatly in size.  From portable and hand held televisions to widescreen and flat widescreen televisions, there is a choice to suit everyone.  The most recent additions to this can vary from VCR's to DVD's to play stations and other games consoles.  Also there are numerous networks, which you can choose from, such as ITV digital, cable, sky digital, etc.  

In this world today, there are people out there that think television is fantastic and that there is nothing out there that could spoil a nice, quiet night in, with a nice warm cup of coffee with their feet up in front of the television while there are others who don't feel so strongly.  They would rather smash that cup of coffee off the television.  If you think that's very extreme, think again, because there are people today that think television is the worst invention ever.

       There are some people with a point of view that television is a good influence.  They think this because they think that television teaches children to be creative which is shown in documentaries and educational programmes.  Maybe so, but do these people realise that the more time they spend watching television, the more time they're taking out of their own social life and the more closer they are to becoming addicted to it.  Do they know that two out of three network prime time shows illustrate some sort of sexual situation or dilemma between a couple, according to a study released in February 1999, by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, showed that only three percent of sitcoms discussed any of the risks and responsibilities associated with sex drugs and violence. Do they also know that foul language has increased on these shows and words absent on television ten years ago are now cropping up in more commonly in the scripts of characters on soaps and on every network?  Would you want your children to grow up using bad language as part of their everyday speech? No definitely not I would ponder, If you ask my opinion, I would say that yes, television does teach children to be creative, but not in a good sense.  With television progressing at this rate and filling up with more violence, sex and strong language which is easily accessed, these circumstances can be avoided by ensuring that children take part in more sports such as football, swimming, running, cycling and lots of others and watch less television. Also do you think that a, elderly person would watch a film happily that consists of a lot of violence and strong language?  Television could that very strong impact on the elderly if maybe they watch too much of it.  It could deprive them of their social life and watching too much television could lead an old woman or man into a deep depression, which could have very serious and, maybe even fatal consequences such as laziness and lack of exercise.  

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       Other views are that television s a bad influence especially on the younger generation maybe because there is too much violence and bad language which could have an affect on them and also on older people as they may cause offence, Maybe people think that living in this world means you are inclined anyway to seeing and hearing all this violence and bad language.  There are views that it keeps children out of trouble and other views that it discourages play in younger children but they think that they are better off keeping their children inside than ...

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