1. Milwaukee
Journal
Sunday, January 17 th ,
2010
The Effect Television Has on Us
As an adult, you are just
trying to live life the way you
were taught to live it.
Television seems so harmless,
just another way to entertain
you, but the dangers of what
you watch has an influence on
you. Most people believe that
TV takes your mind off of what
is going on in the real world,
however, people are overseeing
that they are beginning to
revolve their life around what
they watch on the TV.
On my way to work one
Tuesday morning, I saw a girl, A 72” screen LG television above.
about the age of 15, through your society, they have been
the window and she was sitting getting their acting mistaken
in front of the television as reality.
screen in her home enjoying a Everyone that lives in
show. She began talking. The this country should change
house looked rather empty at their way of life by modifying
first glance so my first the shows they watch and movies
instinct is to double take they enjoy to something with
which, in this case, confirmed purpose, to show them something
that no one else was in the pure and rich and wholesome.
house with this girl; she was The channels on the
trying to have a conversation television should change from
with the people on the TV. garbage to golden or else the
The characters that appear people of this country will get
on the TV screen are fake, it’s nothing out of what they watch.
all fake and she was trying to To give them something with a
lodge it into her life as if it purpose to watch, the
were real. Without stepping government must replace it with
away from the screen, no one pure entertainment. Books teach
can see that a television is us lessons either by showing us
just a flat surface with moving what to be afraid of, or not to
pictures on it that had been take things for granted and
recorded months or even years many other things.
earlier. The characters aren’t Incorporating this into
real, they’re just actors and television will make a better,
actresses playing a role but more educated society. I
for some people in propose that we get garbage TV
off the air and replace it with
shows and movies worth
watching.
-Leah Vetro