never watch TV. I had done my share of watching television‚ and came to the realization that it was an utter waste of time. Sure‚ some of TV has redeeming merit: news shows‚ the discovery channel‚ etc. But many people tend to watch reality shows‚ soap operas and other drivel instead of meaningful shows. Most reality TV is pointless and ludicrous. If reality shows are an accurate portrayal of reality‚ then please shoot me. I say we outlaw reality TV as false advertising as to what reality really is
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0959-0552.htm Benefit segmentation of TV home shoppers Hyejune Park Department of Retail‚ Hospitality‚ and Tourism Management‚ University of Tennessee‚ Knoxville‚ Tennessee‚ USA Benefit segmentation 7 Received 16 September 2009 Revised 17 June 2010 Accepted 21 June 2010 Chae-Mi Lim Marketing‚ School of Business Administration‚ Philadelphia University‚ School House Lane & Henry Avenue‚ Philadelphia
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TV For Children Television plays an important role in our daily life and it exerts a very large influence on people‚ especially children. Watching television may be a kind of relaxation for children but it can result a lot of disadvantages upon children if we misuse it. The disadvantages of television for children can be vividly seen in the society. As we known‚ things that we usually do can become a habit of us. Like this‚ if children usually watch television‚ it will surely become a habit
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Yes! My favorite TV show is coming on! My favorite TV show is Love & Hip Hop. Even though‚ Love & Hip Hop is a great show; it’s a harmful view of the world. Television is harming our view of the world by displaying bad characters and in adult content. Television is harming our view of the world by displaying bad characters. Showing bad characters harms our view of the world because it makes people want to be something they are not. The characters you see on TV are bullies‚ drug dealers
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The Death of Reality and the Reality of Death Death is never easy. Afterall it is the only sure thing anyone will ever do. Yet how one dies is determined by how they live. One who lives their life to the fullest will be content and open to death‚ while one whose life has been empty will fear it; but what if the difference between full and empty was not so easily differentiated? What if reality and falsehood were the same? This idea is contemplated in both Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and
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Reality TV is the new mantra of television producers and channel executives. It is the means to increase TRP ratings and the end is always to outdo the other channels and the ‘similar-but-tweaked-here-and-there’ shows churned out by the competition. So fierce is the competition in this segment that every channel boasts of at least two to three reality shows. Some of them are inherited legally from abroad‚ (mostly and always from the USA – the Godmother of reality television) or some are cheap copies
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“I do like reality shows‚ and I watch some of them because they’re high drama. Its also just fun to watch people have honest reactions” Lisa Kudrov . People love reality shows for its drama‚ its entertaining to them. Americans spend 1/3 of their free time watching television and of that 67% are reality shows. This means that more than half of America watches reality shows. Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents unscripted situations and actual occurrences‚ and
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Indiana teens haven’t reduced their risky behavior by much in the past two years‚ according to the results of a national survey released Thursday.Drug and alcohol use was down but the smoking rates flat-lined. The percentage of teens reporting they had sex remained unchanged. And while Indiana teens reported that they get more exercise than the average teen‚ they don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables and too many of them are obese.The Indiana State Department of Health released the results of the
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your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.”(qtd. in Alexis 247) .The connection between the desensitized youth of our nation and the American mass media is undeniable. American Children spend more than fifty-three hours a week watching TV or using video games‚ cellphones‚ and computers (Kaiser Family Foundation). That is an incredible amount of time for anyone‚ let alone a child. Sociologists believe that the media is used as a means to educate youth in regards to beliefs and values
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Influence of Indian TV Channels Indian TV channels have been telecasted for many years in Bangladesh which really has had a bad impact on our society‚ culture and traditions. Many people of our country are watching these TV serials and they are very fond of these programs. In my opinion‚ Indian TV channels should be banned. Indian TV channels are affecting our culture. First of all‚ people of our country are now following different cultures and traditions so that our culture is about to be extinct
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