Topic:
In a review of Don DeLillo's novel White Noise, Jayne Anne Phillips writes that the characters are people "sleepwalking through a world where 'Coke is It' and the TV is always on." On the other hand, television is said to have brought the world to people who would not have seen much of it otherwise, that it has made possible a "global village". Write an essay in which you express your opinion of the effect of television on individuals or on nations. Include specific detail from personal experience to back up your assertions.
Essay:
Nowadays television becomes more and more popular, and it also brings people some concern. As television can give us a lot of information, it may be a problem that some people could use television to spread some irregular information such as violent movies or fake news that may do harm to the whole society. Admittedly, it is not avoidable to completely stop people from doing illegal things through television and indeed people may get some irregular information through television. However, television itself does bring us a lot of convenience, and it contributes a lot to people's daily lives.
Television can bring us a lot of information in an accurate and direct way. Through the television, we can clearly know about the weather, get the world's most recent news to get in touch with nowaday's world, or even "travel" to another country by following the trip guide on a special channal. Television does bring the world to people and it is a most popular way to get information from the outside world through television. Without television, people may have to be at the exact place at the exact time to victim any event so as to get any information about it. Now, people can just sit in front of television, enjoying a cup of coffee, and watch the news. Although people can also get some information through newspaper or radio, they could not get information as accurate as television does. Imagine when we want to enjoy the Olympic Games and support our own national teams, it is much more exciting to watch the game trough television rather than reading the newspaper or listening to the radio. How can we exactly see the whole process of a basketball star's fantastic dunking without a television? We have to miss many pictures of the game and are not possible to really experiencing the exciting moments of the game when we only listen to the radio or just see the result on a newspaper. It is only through television that may help people experience the reality of Olympic Games, and any other events.
Through television, people can not only get a lot of information from the outside world, but also well spread their information to the outside world. Nowadays a lot of people use television to advertise their products. Indeed, as television becomes more and more popular, to do advertisement through television can give the potential customers the most accurate images, and may bring the advertisers the best effects. Television, rather than radio or newspaper, can give people a lot of vivid pictures and the combination of images and sounds can help people clearly understand the products of these advertisers. Consider a fast food restaurant is advertising a new burger, even though people can see a picture on a newspaper, or know about the new burger by listening to the radio, the advertiser may still choose to advertise their product through television. The vivid pictures and clear sounds on the television, rather than a small picture on a newspaper, can more effectively stimulate people's appetite, and may bring the advertiser more customers.
Others may concern that television can also bring people some irregular information such as through violent movies that may do harm to young adults. But we could not criticize the contribution of television just because some people use it to do illegal things. Television itself does not have any thought, it is people who use it to do invalid things. In order to protect young adults from getting in touch any unhealthy information on television, parents, instead of television itself, should care about this problem. We cannot neglect or negate the contributions that television brings to us. What are we waiting for? Just turn on the television and we can bring the whole world back to our home.
