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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Television is good and bad for everyone

Does TV provide a good form of entertainment? Is it just a convenient delivery system for advertisers to send their messages to the masses? Is it an inane use of time? Can it be all three?

TV definitely provides a good form of entertainment, no mater what you like and what entertains you! You can watch sporting events (which is mainly what I watch), comedy shows (Modern Family, The Office), you can watch intense mysteries (NCIS, CSI, Criminal Minds), cartoons, movies new or old, news, really just about anything! It provides entertainment when you are feeling lazy and up to sitting down and having a screen entertain you. Everybody needs some entertainment to stay happy and have a good laugh sometimes.
It is also a convenient way to deliver advertisements. People have to watch commercial, if they are well made (Super Bowl ads), people remember them and buy those products.
It can also be a wasteful use of time to people. If there is something more productive that you could directly be doing, then it may be a waste of time. If it is a sunny day and all of your friends are playing football outside and you are sitting in your basement watching television shows, then that seems like a waste of time and an unhealthy use of your time. You could be active, but instead, you are being a slug and feel left out and isolated probably. But if your favorite NFL team is playing one rainy Sunday, you could have some friends over to watch the game and that would not be a waste of time.

So, all in all, it really is a mix of all three that depends primarily on the situation at hand.

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