Television
Television - the system or process of producing on a distant screen a series of transient visible images, usually with an accompanying sound signal. Electrical signals, converted from optical images by a camera tube, are transmitted by UHF or VHF radio waves or by cable and reconverted into optical images by means of a television tube inside a television set. This is the definition the explanatory dictionary gives for term "television". Though, television nowadays is something more than a system of producing series of visible images.
Television today is something we all have and something we can hardly imagine our life without. It is common that people come home and watching TV after or even during having a supper. There are a number of different shows produced in order to entertain us or in order to inform us about something. The TV program usually consists of some movies, news and TV-shows. News is aimed on informing people about world or local events. This program usually lasts for an hour and informs people about events of the passed day.
There are also some programs aimed strictly on entertaining of people. Today there is a great number of reality shows. People usually are placed in certain place under certain conditions and they have to follow the set of rules in order to become a winner. There are no particular information reported for people by means of that shows, there is only the entertainment of people that is the aim of such shows. These shows are produce for teenagers mostly and the teenagers are fond of those reality-shows. They also have an opportunity to take part in any of those shows and they often use that opportunity.
As talking about harm television causes for people there is no need to talk about adult people. They are people of generation that appreciated books, so they are not possessed with television. Though, modern generation of teenagers do. According to statistic there are a few teenagers nowadays who fond of reading and they prefer watching TV. Though, the information they percept from the TV-screen is an information modified by someone. There is no individuality in those shows we see on the TV. So, modern teenagers lose their ability to think and to make up their opinion about one or another phenomenon or event.
Television for teenagers is more than a system of transferring; it is a source they receive information from. It is the TV that forms teenagers' point of view today. So, it is easy to suggest for teenagers any though one wants to suggest. It will be enough to produce some show and provide it with necessary advertisement. And – here you go! – teenagers passionately believe in ideas of the show and recognize those ideas as right. On the other hand, there are not only the wrong thoughts may be suggested for teenagers. It is also possible to make them more sympathetic and responsible by means of the TV-suggestion.
