counts for the strongest television channels in the market. Their success‚ unlike their effect on the viewer‚ is in arguable. Salman Rushdie‚ in his article‚ Reality TV: A Dearth of Talent and the Death of Morality argues that reality television is a deterioration of mass entertainment‚ whereas in James Poniewozik’s Television‚ Why Reality TV is Good for us‚ reality television is viewed in a more positive light. Although both articles deal with the issue of reality television shows‚ they take different
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book. Television presents the world to her‚ a different world every thirty minutes‚ which holds her attention. This now leaves her no mental work to do‚ except to decide which channel she would like to watch. Because watching television requires no mental work‚ the brains of young adults that watch exorbitant amounts of television are not stimulated enough. This may lead to decline in ability to focus on real-life
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house‚ I was able to watch very little television. The most television I was able to watch was on Saturday mornings and it was cartoons. Today‚ the young and old come home and the first thing they do is turn on the television set. According to a survey done by Emory H. Woodard and Natalia Grindina‚ “on average‚ people are watching over 51 hours of television- that is five hours a day of TV on average for the last quarter of the year. Teenagers (12 to 17) spend 103 hours watching TV a month‚ whereas senior
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Reality TV Have you seen the popular reality television shows lately? The core of reality TV consists of: Fighting‚ sexuality‚ and an intolerable amount of drinking and drug use. Young viewers who watch reality TV may be assuming that this type of behavior is the ideal lifestyle. Even in the early years of reality TV‚ the main hook to keep viewers interested was to aspire to young women of what reality is. The Miss America pageants made some young women believe in the ideals of beauty and perfection
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TV AS A CULPRIT Our minds are rotting away and we might not know it. This is due to a destructive invention‚ a culprit known as television. Though television has kept families in their homes with countless hours of entertainment‚ it has also ended up destroying family ritual‚ affecting academic performance‚ and promoting sex and violence. One effect of television in our current time is the destruction of family ritual. Once upon a time‚ so we have been told‚ families talked with each other
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Competition for Viewers and Advertisers in a TV Oligopoly Hans Jarle Kind Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration Tore Nilssen University of Oslo Lars Sørgard Norwegian Competition Authority Abstract We consider a model of a TV oligopoly where TV channels transmit advertising and viewers dislike such commercials. We show that advertisers make a lower profit the larger the number of TV channels. If TV channels are sufficiently close substitutes‚ there will be underprovision
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to reading a book. I do not know how many hours you watch tv in a day but its damage depends upon the time you spend in front of it. In our society‚ reading a book is by most of the people regarded as wasting time. People would prefer to do everything rather than reading a book or something like periodical. And their preference is as you can guess on the side of watching tv. However as these people do not know the serious desadvantages of tv‚ they go on watching it for hours and hours. So‚ in
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elevision - In Living Color Everything people eat‚ wear‚ or use is pushed at the public through commercial advertising. Whether it is the fertilizer that the farmer chooses to put on the vegetables he grows‚ the clothing that is chosen at the department store‚ or the pen to write a report‚ it has been advertised. Advertising occurs even in the packaging of a product. From the colors the manufacturer chooses to use on the wrapping‚ to the multi-million dollar expense of television‚ everyone
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In her essay‚ "Tv Addiction‚" Marie Winn compares "television addiction" to other harmful habits‚ and tries to convince the reader that heavy television viewing is as harmful as drug and alcohol‚ and it should not be viewed differently than other serious addictions. In fact‚ the most important factor that backs up her argument is her simplified definition for the word "addiction‚" which is " a tendency to overindulge in some pleasurable activity. (608)" However‚ thinking logically‚ we could see
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J Singh Period 4 Ms. Lopez Reality Television 15 minutes of fame or 15 minutes of shame? In the articles‚ "what is reality TV equal real learning?" by Annaweinstein‚ the good and the bad reality TV is explored. Reality TV has around for 40 years‚ but it has been only this past decade that there has been an explosion in popularity. Programs such as "Big Brother"‚ "American Idol"‚ and "Jersey Shore" have been captured the attention of millions who battles
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