for the love and hate of television- brandon castillo

I watch television every night. I do this because I believe that it is very entertaining and helps me get through my homework without dying of boredom. In fact, I am watching The Simpsons right now! I watch television when my favorite sports teams are playing or when my favorite shows like Modern Family or Big Brother are on.

I think that TV does provide a good source of entertainment. There is a reason why some many people watch TV and a reason why so many companies pay billions for thirty second advertisements. People like visually appealing things. Reading can only produce so much. Watching television can let us visualize the places our favorite characters are going such as Hogwarts or the Middle Earth. Even though advertisers do have the ability to shove their products and messages at us with television, they pay a lot of money to do this and they know that millions of people watch TV (otherwise they wouldn't pay so much). As I said before, there is a reason that millions of people watch TV. It can be inane as most shows are for entertainment reasons and a distraction for the most part.

It is sad that society pays more attention to the entertainment business than the future of science and knowledge in general. This tells us that our society today is shallow. In other words, they would rather be entertained than educated. I don't think that this is a good thing and do not know how to change it. People believe that they already have enough on their minds and when they get home, they just want to be entertained without having to think; television like the Emmy's provides this while the Nobel Prizes require a former knowledge of a wide variety of things and the need to pay attention.