Wednesday, March 17, 2010
TVs influence on American Culture
Movies and TV shows are a big hit in modern day America and are one of the more powerful influences on young American lives. Everyday Americans watch a movie or show and think that just because it is on TV that it is alright for them to do what they have just seen. For example, you watch a show with some women that just bought a restaurant and within days it is brand new because some cool looking popular chef got it going and made the food and outlook amazing. Life does not work like this and if you think that your going to be able to do this then you are very wrong. Young teens also like to watch shows that have teen pregnancy in it and that makes it seem like it is not hard at all to have a baby and support yourself. One of the major shows that does this is One Tree Hill. This television show has young teen mothers and fathers that have normal everyday lives with normal drama like every other person, but they have a kid as well that takes very little to take care of. Now I am one-hundred percent sure that this is not true and a lifestyle that these characters are living in this show is so ridiculous that you have to be crazy to believe that life is that easy. You may think that no one thinks life is this easy with a kid and a house, but in fact I have heard young people say that this show is pretty true and accurate. This statement is very embarrassing to hear, because of the stupidity that it holds. My point that I am trying to state is that this show is a bad influence on young Americans, because we believe so much crap that we see on TV and read in magazines that it should just not be on TV. One show that maybe should be allowed on TV is the television show 16 and pregnant. Now even though it is kind of bad in showing that there are moms and dads that are only 16 years old it has some good parts to it. One good part to this show is that it shows you the truth in to what will happen in a situation like this. This shows presents that if you are pregnant that it sort of ruins your plans in life and that financially things will become very hard to deal with. Now because young teens watch so much TV we might as well watch something that is actually true not something that is fictional and tricks some to believe there is truth in it. Today’s world is really sad in all the television that we watch and media that we read in magazines that rip peoples lives apart. I believe that today’s culture has really been shaped by the TV shows that we watch as well as other sources such as the magazines and video games that we play.
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I don't know what I think about the effects of TV because some are good and some are bad.
ReplyDeleteI think TV has a huge role in America right now with both bad, and good effects.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, i believe that you can never trust everything that you hear, see, or that happens on t.v. It's t.v. and its there for your entertainment. Even 16 and pregnant is most likely scripted, because if it wasn't it would get too repetitive and then the show would be cancelled. All i'm saying is that you need to doubt everything you hear and see, or else you allow yourself to believe whatever is told to you.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Owen that tv is extremely scripted, but I still tune in and watch on the premise of entertainment. Nice post Herbert
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with Owen here. We can't trust what we see, we have no idea what is real and not. Too many shows that have claimed to be reality in fact are scripted, which sucks that people have to do that to make it more entertaining...it doesn't though.
ReplyDeleteI have to say, I do watch T.V. quite often (Even though it is mostly just the food network), and I can say that most of the time it is just useless information. While some stuff can be useful, it is generally just slop.
ReplyDeleteThe TV tries to show us very stimulated screen!! To encourage the people go watch. This affect bad influence to the watchers. Many teens believe what they are watchig through the TV.
ReplyDeleteThe company have to stop to bring bad shows.
Reality T.V. is scripted, and it is important for people watching to understand that. T.V. is all about entertainment. If viewers did not spend time watching these programs, producers would no longer put their money into scripting them... Still, T.V. can be beneficial in providing news, and knowledge about the world.
ReplyDeleteGood post! I enjoy watching TV but everything you see or hear on TV isn't always true. It's just there for your entertainment.
ReplyDeletepersonally, I love watching TV. But there are many bad effects of watching TV.
ReplyDeleteI think there are good and bad effects of TV, but I am very skeptical of what I see and hear while watching TV because I know that not all of it is true.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this post especially on the teen pregnancy part, obviously.
ReplyDeleteI love One Tree Hill, so I'm not all about this post because I watch it as a form of entertainment, just as people watch movies and play video games to entertain themselves.
ReplyDeleteI think some shows are interesting some of them are so bad. I also disagree bad family shows. Good post
ReplyDeleteTV has the abililty to influence vast numbers of people. Unfortunately, most of the influence caused by TV is negative. TV networks should work to create shows that positively affect people.
ReplyDeleteT.V. is entertaining, but there are so many other things you could be doing with your life.
ReplyDeletePretty good post. T.V has its uses like having noise in the background or when you are bored and have nothing else to do. Nothing is wrong with T.V., but we don't need to be watching it all of the time.
ReplyDeleteT.V. is good if you have everything that is needed to be done, done.
ReplyDeleteTV should be seen as entertaining but not a social handbook which some people just can't seem to get past.
ReplyDeleteGood post.
ReplyDeleteTV and other forms of storytelling can seriously affect our societies' behavior. Holy Cow!
Maybe if they had been properly educated, people would be less likely to take what they saw on TV or read in a story as a likely outcome in real life?
Nah, totally improbable, bro.
Thanks for the post, Herbert. Sometimes we do deny the most obvious of things, and need to be reminded.