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In “TV’s Negative Influence on Kids Reaffirmed” by Jeffery M. McCall, he claims that too much television is unhealthy for children. McCall states that children are more likely to be sexually active, violent, and socially impaired. The author claims that television not only negatively affects children, it also prevents children form doing productive activities such as doing homework, participating in sports, and reading. Even though all TV manufactures include v-chips in all televisions, McCall says that most families do not understand the system ratings that come with the v-chip. The author goes on to say that networks rate their own television programs and are not accurately labeling or rating their shows. McCall also argues that parents should…
We can’t deny that television shows make a huge impact towards our society, our culture, and how we interact with other people surrounding us. There are many things that we can learn from watching television shows like ‘The Voice’, ‘American Idol’, ‘The Biggest Loser’, and so on. Shows like that really give you an idea about how all of us as a person can accomplish anything, but then how about those TV shows such as MTV’s ‘Jersey Shore’, ‘My Super Sweet 16’, and ‘16 and pregnant’? Even though we are supposed to only take everything in a positive way, but I can’t help but to notice that some of these TV shows is one of the main reasons that creates social stereotypes within our society. In this essay, I will provide some of examples that I think will be proofs that reality TV shows reinforces demeaning social stereotypes.…
When it comes to the topic of teenage pregnancy, most of us will readily agree that TV shows like ‘16 and pregnant’ encourage teenage girls to start their own family at a young age. Where this agreement usually ends however, is on the question of rather TV show ’16 and pregnant’ have helped teenage girls from getting pregnant at a young age. Whereas some are convinced that the show has reduced teenage pregnancy rates, others maintain that the show is not something teenagers should be watching because of the influence the show gives teens. Anyone familiar with the TV show ’16 and pregnant’ should agree that the show encourages teenage pregnancy and is not a show teenagers should be watching.…
Shows like Keeping Up With the Kardashians, The Bachelor and The Real Housewives have been taking the country by storm with the unscripted, outrageously unpredictable stories of ordinary people from around the country.Americans spend 33% of their free time watching television and 67% of the shows are reality television(Reality Television:a Shocking Statistic).The average American watches five hours of television a day, that means they spend three and a half hours a day watching reality television.This shows that reality television is affecting everyone's everyday lives.Reality television is harmful to our society because it promotes stereotypes,it leaves a lasting impression on young susceptible minds,and it is false advertising.…
Although reality TV is fascinating and full of drama, it still has an enormous effect on today’s youth. Throughout the years reality TV has become popular and it has attracted different age groups. But one group that reality TV attracts would be teens. Now I am not talking about all teens, but some teens do look at the actions of the television stars and think what they’re doing is “amazing”. When teenagers watch reality shows it opens their eyes to a lot of sex, vulgar language, and drugs. Allowing teens to be exposed to this much disapproval behavior is dangerous and can later bring problems later on in life. My best friend younger sister, who is fifteen, is starting to live the life of a reality star. She wakes up early for school, tired, from the previous night. She enjoys staying up all hours of the night just to be able to catch her favorite show, “The Bad Girls Club.” Wanting to be free, and doing whatever she feels like doing. Saying anything she wants to whomever, going out partying with all her friends, open to try drugs (weed), ready to try and have sex. At a young age she wants to do everything like these “bad girls” do. Is it healthy? No, going out every weekend and partying is making her tired. All this “freedom” that she’s getting is making her not want to study for school. But watching these reality shows isn’t healthy for a fifteen year old. According to Mullings “The impact of heavy television viewing and the effects it has on young viewers has been a dominant topic since the 1960s. With the ever-changing landscape of television programming, reality television has become increasingly popular, especially among the pre-teen and teen audiences” (Mullings)…
It is not difficult to mistake the differences and similarities between reality television and high school. Reality television is often about celebrities and the depths within their own lives while high school is something that everyone has to experience at some point in their lifetime whether you’re a celebrity or not. Both subjects come with their ups and downs. The main difference between high school and reality television shows is that high school comes with no script. Reality television shows are often scripted and played out.…
British philosopher James Allen once said that “circumstances don 't make a man, they only reveal him.” With that being known, reality television is simply a mirror image of what our society has become; a judge mental driven society where the passion for power and money overcomes the power of love. It 's an overview of a society that is not only weak economically, but is also separated from unworldly roots. It 's also a culture that lives by hanging by a string, characterized by thrill-seekers and addictions. Knowing the popularity of reality T.V. shouldn’t be shocking considering the fact that the world we live in respects vanity, rather than value. Watching reality television has dramatically affected society by increased cases of drama, insecurity, and outlook on the world.…
Since the creation of reality television, people have been influenced for both the better and worse. Many professionals have invested their time and resources into finding out just how and why reality TV has had such a big impact on society and they have come up with many different perspectives on the matter.…
The definition of reality is “the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.” So as a society should we label reality T.V as such? When there are cameras watching your every move, and you are aware that the cameras are there, how real is it? Many reality series stars cast are aspiring actors, or already acting. So how are the viewers able to determine if the situations is reality? or are they acting for the cameras? This leads me to my next question, is reality T.V having a negative impact on our current culture? “The average American watches four point five hours of television a day” and reality television makes up majority of today programming on television. Reality T. V can…
There is social value in the show Little People, Big World. There is value in the way that the family overcomes their disabilities and works toward their goals. As we saw in the first episode Matt, the father, has worked at his own business, which helps people with dwarfism, to get it to a point where he can make a significant amount of money from it. He started the business with the hope of just making extra side money not knowing where it would take him, but it grew to a point where, as we saw in class, he was sponsored by a large company (Little People, Big World). Society can learn from Matt that even just a simple idea can grow into something significant if you just work with it. Furthermore, Matt has dwarfism, and not only has it not slowed him down, but he used his own experiences to develop a profitable business. I think this is valuable because he took what most people would call a negative, and turned it into positive. This is a valuable trait to have as a person because throughout our lives we are faced with obstacles and challenges, but it’s not the obstacles and challenges that determine how successful or happy we are, it is our response to these obstacles and challenges. Matt just has a positive outlook on life. This is something that our culture should learn to embrace with all the negativity that surrounds us from things like the war in the Middle East to the recent recession.…
A few months after my friend Angela, who lives in Santo Domingo, acquired access to premium channels such as HBO, Cinemax, etc. her eight years old daughter asked her one night: “Mom, are there poor people in the United States?” This could have been a joke if it were not so revealing. My friend realized that the luxurious scenes shown on television were not only giving her daughter a false idea about life in the United States, but they could also be creating unrealistic expectations in the girl’s mind concerning life in general. The same situation is faced by children and teenagers all over the United Sates. To a child’s eyes, television represents a parallel reality with its own rules and laws, a reality in which everything is not only possible and easy, but is obviously more appealing to his/her mind than the sometimes bleak or deprived household in which he or she lives. The problem is real and is not going away. On the contrary, it is only strengthened by the leading role played by television in the upbringing of children, as parents are forced to work long hours and depend more and more on the “electronic nanny” for the children’s entertainment. Unfortunately, the damage done to the children is serious and has unpredictable consequences in the long run.…
MTV is one of the most popular T.V stations among teenagers. Along with being one of the most popular, MTV is also one of the most influential. When it comes to teenagers, our minds are like clay, waiting to be shaped and molded into more advance adult like minds. When you put together an extremely popular and influential T.V station, and a teenage mind, you tend to have an effect of some sort. The effect of MTV on young minds is like the power a dictator holds over his people. Its starting a craze among many, changing the way you think, or corrupting the only purity or innocence you had left. MTV has all sorts of effects on different people.…
We’ve all heard the expression, “Well if your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump, too?” from our parents, or other adult figure-type person. In today’s society, adolescents seem to be taking this phrase to a new level. As the media continues to abuse the popularity of the too-thin actors and actresses, exploit famous persons’ suicides, and portray ‘problems’ in general as being ‘cool’ with TV shows focused on rehab circles featuring those popular people our culture knows and loves, more and more young people are finding reasons to copycat these problematic ‘role models’, resulting in a crisis within the youth. The depression, low self esteem, eating disorder, and suicide rate disaster within the youth can all be traced back to the media, which tends to glamorize such problems, so that they appeal to adolescents as being the next ‘in’ thing.…
"The real" in reality programming is a highly flexible concept. Rather than solely relying upon the use of actual documentary or "live" footage for its credibility, reality programming often draws upon a mix of acting, news footage, interviews and re-creations in a highly simulated pretense towards the "real." Admittedly, mainstream television news is also involved in the recreation of reality, rather than simply recording actual events. And yet, "reality" is dramatized on reality programming to an extent quite unlike conventional television news, and this dramatization is often geared towards more promotional, rather than informational, ends. The truth of the matter is that reality shows are all fundamentally real at their core, but with most programming – producers know that viewership is key to securing the corporate sponsorships. High viewership leads to more corporate sponsors, more corporate sponsors means more money, more money means more profits for all involved in the production. So, since viewership is key, sometimes they extort or beef up ‘reality’ to make it more interesting, or it has to be ‘planned reality’ because of the numerous legalities and logistics surrounding taping.…
The concept of reality television can be traced back to the 1940s. In 1948 Allen Funt's Candid Camera was debuted (Wikipedia 2006). That was the first unscripted reality television show. Since then reality shows have taken the United States by storm. This genre of entertainment has become a very important part of the American culture. So much, that a couple of reality shows are proudly using the continent's name as a qualified title. Examples are America's Next Top Model, and American Idol. Reality television has become more than just entertainment for Americans; it is now a way of life. There are quite a few aspects to reality television; there are the psychological, social, and the obvious entertainment aspects. What reality television has become in the United States is observed by Geela "These days there is a growing trend towards reality TV shows that are based on external shallow values". It's embarrassing how the American reality television is only focused on one aspect: the material culture.…