Assignment 5 - David Butler

Is television good or bad for you? Well, like many others my opinion of this question isn't exclusive to one side or the other. I also believe that it's far more complicated than a simple question of good and bad. First I'll start off with a common question, “Does TV provide a good form of entertainment”?. To answer this i would say that in the right situation if can be informative and helpful but most of the time it is just here to take our mind off the real world and in that sense i don't believe things like violence in movies affects as much as we may believe. We use it to entertain ourselves but i believe we mainly dissociate ourselves from reality when watching shows because we don't expect realism or the constraints of reality. This is why we are entertained by things like space movies or action films. However, i believe this is also why we don't always take what we see in movies or shows into our lives, because we don't compare them to reality. Now is too much of anything ever a good idea? NO! Of course not. But it can let us take a break from reality which is often hard and boring to delve into another universe and in this sense i think Tv can but isn't always a good form of entertainment. I do think that advertisers can rely heavily on tv but since streaming has blossomed across the world, TV advertisement has become less pronounced. This allows us to enjoy more quality entertainment which in amounts can be a useful way to wind down like said earlier. But it can be a waste of time in the sense that it isn't inherently productive.