Reality TV is delivering dangerous messages to its viewers, particularly to those in early childhood and adolescence, as this is a critical period of brain development, rapidly and easily absorbing information. The prominent themes showcased in Reality TV are those of survival, fame, and vanity.
Timothy Sexton, writer of
“The Dangers of Reality TV,” mentions that reality television promotes
competition as the key of success, and compares it to the capitalism economy,
similar to cooperation’s monopolizing the market. In Sextons words “life is
nothing but a competition that we continually engage in with each other.” This
is the message we are receiving from this medium of entertainment. The majority
of realty shows revolve around a grand prize where the most aggressive
competitor has a greater advantage of winning. We also always see a system of elimination
where participants must survive each round in order to remain on the show.
I believe is very sad to know how popular this so called “Reality TV” has become in the American Society, how young minds are mold believing that just being competitive and having a more attractive image than others is the most important in life. I personally experienced the influence of this type of shows and I noticed by watching this for many hours how empty the content of this TV series really are. I could notice for example that some reality TV participants are constantly looking for attention by provoking the most strange and extreme situations, like gossiping, use of profane language, nudity, etc. participants use any means possible to draw attention to themselves and work along with the TV channel's directors which are looking to boost the ratings even if they end up making a fool of themselves.
Probably this TV companies are very aware of what is going on, hopefully there can be changes made in programation for the shows to be more instructive but is not in the Channels Owners intererst because there only concern is the ratings which brings them profit. Reason why I say we will see much more of this Reailty TV for now and for the future to come.
Hi Ben, my name is Janet and I'll give you some feedback on your practice CATW. Let’s begin with your introduction. It has to be a little longer than what you have now. In the introduction you should state your claim and list at least 3, if not more examples to back up your claim. Once you have that done, it will be much easier to finish the rest of the essay. Each paragraph after that will be one of your examples from your introduction in more detail, then your conclusion. Your first paragraph is almost one long sentence. Although there is a lot of good information in there, because it's one sentence, it's hard to understand it. Go back and reread it and break it down into a few different sentences. The same goes for the other two paragraphs. You are also missing a conclusion. Also be careful of your sentences. A lot of them are run on. If you take some time and work on your introduction, you will find that writing the rest of your essay will be much easier. Make sure to definitely work on your introduction and add on a conclusion. Put some more details into your body paragraphs to support your claims.
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ReplyDeleteThank you, I will definitely work on that with yor advise.
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ReplyDeleteI have a few more suggestions. You should combine the first two paragraphs together. You can actually make the sentence where you say:
ReplyDeleteReality TV is delivering dangerous messages to those who watch this this type of programs..... the ending to your introduction. With your third paragraph, about the tv companies, give some reason as to why you feel like we will see more of reality tv. You are also going to want to add at least one more paragraph, since we are now combining the first two. Good Luck!!