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Do You Think Television is Destroying the Country?

May 5th, 2010 8 comments

Ever read the book Amusing Ourselves to Death? Basically it puts forth an argument that says TV makes the population, well, dumber.

TV masks entertainment as fact. TV isnt a medium to inform the citizentry as much as it is a way to entertain the citizenry. TV commercials convince you that you can solve your problems in 30 seconds.

Throughout American history, print media has been a means of starting public discourse. Common Sense, for example. The New York Times was the paper of record. Now people only want entertainment via the TV or the Internet. They tune out listening to their Ipods and can take their TV shows with them wherever they go. People are more passive. They accept what they are told. Like Iraq.

In the 1800s people actually read the Lincoln Douglass debates. They were that interested. Now people barely care about the content of a political debate. How the candidate looks on TV is more important than what they say.

TV makes us "dumber".

No, there are a lot of ways to gain knowledge and an intelligent individual would know that TV is not a wise choice. It is for entertainment