Television, is it as good as our taught?

Nowadays, television is not a rare thinganymore. Television is very popular forms of mass media in the world. Almost all people are familiar with it and most of them at least own one in their house. So, everybody, children to adults, have watched television. But, I think there are some reasons that make television is a bad mass media.

There are many programs on television, which do not educate. For example, the drama serials on television (sinetron) are neither entertaining nor educational. These shows depict “real life” which is definetely not the same life as we walked on. The plot and the setting of drama serials are very unreasonable, such as a beggar who is very poor has her hair coloured and has a beautiful makeup but live in the shack under the bridge. Besides, there are a story about the girl whose boyfriend was died and then she found a man who is really look alike her old boyfriend. The “real life” in drama serials version are contains with both verbal and physical abuse which are can be followed by some uneducated people and make a crime level higher and higher.



Television can destroy family life and any sense of community. Television broadcast TV programes 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, nonstop. This condition make some people who are addicted to watch the television have no intention to do anything else beside stay in front of their TVs. It can be a dangerous situation, because those people who are TV’s addict prefer watch their television than visiting people or have a conversation with their family and friends. If this situation happened, no one will accompany them and be their friends.

But, some people think television is en excelent resource, even though it is not always used at full potential, it entertains and (sometimes) educates. They believe that television would be one of the most useful resources if some important changes were made.

In conclusion, eventhough television can be entertained, it can damage our real life. Because it can be a bad influence to our lifestyles, attitudes. It can change our way of think on the negative way. Besides, television can damage our social relationship because it can make us watch television all the time without go out and have a communication with the others.

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