Is TV bad for your children? Is TV actually bad for your child to watch? Americans watch TV up to seven hours a day that can affect our “social lives‚ ways of learning and entertaining ourselves‚ family relations‚ and lifestyles.” Kids spend more time watching TV then going out and doing anything productive or active. Do our children learn from TV or is it better to read a book? What kinds of violence are we letting our kids watch? What if they get influenced by it? These are all questions we
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The Reality of Reality TV “Re-al-i-ty‚ noun‚ the state or quality of being real.” ("Reality - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary." ) Reality television has been an important component of our culture since Candid Camera in 1948. The drama‚ excitement‚ anxiousness‚ competition‚ and celebrities who have come out of Reality TV are what keeps viewers watching. The positive and negative opinions of critics and the controversies generated are countless‚ as well as the number
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undoubtedly one of humankind’s greatest inventions. It is a way of communication among people of one country and different countries and nations. People watch TV to find out about the latest news‚ weather‚ sports‚ etc. It is a great way to learn new and extend one’s range of interests. Scientists say that children spend the same amount of hours in front of TV as they do in school. I think that this can be said about many grown people too. Also‚ television is a great means of eliminating stress and tension
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Children are spending way to much time watching television instead of going outside and running in the sun or playing with their friends. So T.V is a bad hobby being introduced to small children that later on that will be their weakness when trying to study or do homework. It will soon hit them as an obstacle and they will eventually start getting bad grades‚ becoming violent and rude‚ and maybe even dropping out of school. Violent kids‚ talking bad‚ rude‚ flunkers‚ ect. Those are all examples
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LSE Research Online Article (refereed) Sonia Livingstone Does TV advertising make children fat? : what the evidence tells us Originally published in Public policy research‚ 13 (1). pp. 54-61 © 2006 Blackwell Publishing. You may cite this version as: Livingstone‚ Sonia (2006). Does TV advertising make children fat : what the evidence tells us [online]. London: LSE Research Online. Available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/1026 Available in LSE Research Online: May 2007 LSE has developed LSE Research
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As Not Seen On TV The article in the newspaper “NY Times” by Pete Wells called As Not Seen On TV about Guy Fieri’s restaurant called “ Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar “ was a great review because I totally agree with Pete Wells. No‚ I have not been to Guy’s restaurant; but that’s how it always happens. Someone really big and famous name opens up a new restaurant and it is supposed to be one of the greatest restaurants around....So they say. But in reality the famous who owns the restaurant has
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Will TV Succumb to the Internet? The Internet has transformed the music industry. Sales of CDs in retail music stores have been steadily declining while sales of songs downloaded through the Internet iPods and other portable music players are skyrocketing. Moreover‚ the music industry is still contending with millions of people illegally downloading songs for free. Will the television industry have a similar fate? Widespread use of high-speed Internet access‚ powerful PCs with high-resolution display
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cheapest and most popular form of entertainment nowadays. There is almost a TV set in every household. People of all ages can use it to entertain themselves at any time they like. It is clear that television is very useful in our life because it helps us not only to relax our minds but also to get knowledge of all areas of human life. However‚ nobody could deny its negative effects on its viewers especially children. Watching TV constantly might lead children to several useless habits such as ignoring
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experimenting with television. UST demonstrated its home-made receiver‚ while Feati opened an experimental television station two years later. On October 23‚ 1953‚ the Alto Broadcasting System (ABS)‚ the forerunner of ABS-CBN‚ made its first telecast as DZAQ-TV Channel 3. The ABS offices were then located along Roxas Blvd. ABS was owned by Antonio Quirino‚ brother of former president Elpidio Quirino. Consequently‚ the first telecast was that of a party at the owner’s residence‚ earning Elpidio Quirino the
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television called reality TV. This exhausted genre of television has taken a new approach to attempt to show outrageous and extreme scenarios to keep a grasp on its’ viewers. Rather than providing true entertainment‚ there reality TV shows often display a talentless‚ annoying cast. As well as fill their shows with product placement; allowing the cast members to get wealthy off of endorsement products and become living advertisement. In Salman Rushdie’s essay “Reality TV: A Dearth of Talent and the
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