''Television is no way a true mirror of society''

Brief Essay outline

INTRODUCTION

As Alan Corenk once said “Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms’’. It is sad but true to some extent at the same time. Nobody can argue with the fact that television has become an obsession of our society. Paddy Chayevsky refers to it as “a menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without”. And that is specifically what it has become today. It used to be a channel of information, enabling people to learn at any time what was going on anywhere in the world. Today there has been a lot of criticism whether TV is still educative and informative or has become just a useless piece of furniture. Some people believe that violence, sex, reality shows etc., gives us the exact duplication of our society.
On the opposite side, others think that despite some individual’s bad intentions, television does not in any way reflect who we are or the world we live in.
Indeed, in some cases, the images shown on TV are based on some real facts. The sad thing is that these images have been distorted and exaggerated. Every member of a society is not a part of an unemployed cast of a reality show, neither someone who spends time gossiping about celebrities or revealing his feelings on a talk show. This essay will try to fairly analyse the positive and negative effects of Television on our society. The next step will provide a logical explanation for this “hate” that started lately to surround the word “Television”.

PARAGRAPH 1: Negative effects of TV on our society

PARAGRAPH 2: Positive effects of TV on our society

PARAGRAPH 3: Reasons for negative perception of TV

PARAGRAPH 4: Impact of today’s Television on our society.

CONCLUSION: I agree with this statement, because even though Television does sometimes show some depressing images of our society, we have to understand that they are just exceptions. After all, if we were reflected by some TV images, we would not be able to define that “picture” of the society as wrong because it would look normal to our eyes.

References
The quotation page, 2007, [WWW], Available from: http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Alan_Corenk/, Accessed: 25/11/2008