Television..kind of subduable

I love TV; plain and simple. The primary reason for this is because of sports. I am constantly watching sports, whether it's a live game, a recorded game, highlights of a game, or even discussion of a game that has or hasn't happened yet. I also have my handful of shows that I enjoy watching. I do not spend hours and hours a day watching "pointless" TV. The only reason that I would watch more than an hour of TV is because of a sporting event or the premier/finale of one of my shows. The number that collaborates with the time spent in front of the TV is obviously too high. I believe that this falls on parenting. Children do what their parents let them do. If the parents let them watch TV for 5 hours, then they will surely watch TV for 5 hours. The parents ruin the children by, in some ways, being careless with what they allow them to do. TV can be addicting. Too much of anything isn't necessarily good. Limits must be set, especially if problems begin to arise. Too much freedom with something that can be so negatively addicting is what is creating the basis for these large numbers and statistics, which is not good.

The Emmy's, the Grammy's, the Oscars, the MTV video awards. On and on we can go naming the award ceremonies obsessing over celebrities and their awesomeness. Today's society is easily captivated by all the wrong that the world has to offer. We somewhat promote and condone, to a seemingly ever-increasing extent, unethical and immoral behavior. We are wrapped up in movie stars, recording "artists", the latest celebrity gossip and "news." It isn't that we don't honor and recognize those who actually achieve something worthy of attention (i.e. war heroes, most nobel prize winners), it's jus that we focus too much on these media celebrities. The ones who should have the attention are the ones who usually do not have any on them. The ones who are worthy of our recognition and admirability are the ones who may not know they deserve it because of their humble and grateful personalities. Society's view of stars, idols, role models, etc. is skewed to an unfortunate extent, but there are fortunately some who still understand.