Essay #2 Rough Draft

Zsofia Illes
Essay #2
02/10/09

Television Dramatically Effects Families

From the essay that we have read by Winn about the television being a plug in drug I found the idea being true and over exaggerated at the same time. She goes on to say how families don’t spend time together anymore because television takes away from family time. I think she is right and wrong in some ways.
Winn talks about families changing in many ways and television being the only time they actually spend together. I agree with the fact that families have changed over the last thirty to twenty years and family values are not what they were expected before. Each member of the family have their own things to do and that way they don’t have that much time left to be together then they did before when the moms weren’t working, only the dads and the kids were home schooled by their moms. Obviously families have come a long ways from that. In today’s society both mom and dad are working to provide a good living for the family. Until that time the kids are in school getting an education that will help them later on in their live.
After the family is done with their full day, they are so tired all they would want to do is sit in front of the television and relax, turn their brains off, and just stare at whatever is in front of them. That’s the part what I don’t agree with. I do think that even though families are tired from the day, having a nice dinner together, where everyone gets to talk about their day, what happened and why was that important. That would be so much more relaxing and more valuable than just sitting in front of the television and watching meaningless movies.
Some times that would be perfectly fine too, to sit and watch television. I think it is built in our society and many people think that it is absolutely necessary in a house hold. I think that’s wrong. Television should not be the only place where people get their information from. There are many reasons for that. One of them is because the media controls the news and you will only get the side of the story that is beneficial to their network or people who control the network, and also censorship. It doesn’t matter of the story is true or has a twist on it as long as it serves their idea they will deliver it to the public.
Another point that Winn brought up and I thought was very good, that even when families are home together but the parents just let the kids sit and watch television, the parents need to supervise what the children are watching. There are many television shows that you would think they are fine just looking at them, but if you actually sit down and watch them you would never let your child watch it again. Winn said that our children now days are more educated by the television then by their own parents. There are again many reasons for that, but it still doesn’t make it right……. To Be Continued!

Blog #3

This video made me really think about all the things I buy and take for granted are hard works from other people. It just showed both sides of the story really well. We dont really see things like this on tv very much. The media picked a social group that spends the most money and we are the target market for all the comercials like buying shoes or new cars. Then since it was so easy for us to buy those things we dont really think about all the hard work behind the things that other people do, maybe make their only living on. This video made me really sad, and think about being more carefull of what i buy and how I use it.