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I’ve always been somewhat aware of the effects that tv has on society, but I’ve always been against thinking that television is the soul cause of things like school shootings, however, it seems too that I may have forgotten exactly what are society has become. Now, I’m still taking my original position that it isn’t a soul cause but TV plays a bigger importance then what we give it credit for, and here are some reasons:  We no longer use babysitters, instead we use TV.  I have seen so many parents using television as a bribe as well.  They tell their kids if they behave they will let them watch TV and sure enough it works.  Why?  Well according to these readings (and I also agree with this) that is the whole reason they are constantly making new TV’s from the standard TV to the HD TV which has clearer picture and better color only to attract that viewer even more.  Another thing they do is increase the amount of channels.  I gurantee if anyone has satalite TV that you can’t say that every hour there isn’t something that you would watch on the TV, so thats how they keep you glued to the TV.

 I actually found it kind of funny though that in the book they make canadian shows into such a big deal, and that Canadians are proud of these stations and that many canadians watch these shows (at least this is the impression I got) and I definatlly don’t find this to be the case.  I mean there are people like us who obviously do watch this stuff, because these are things we are interested in, we wouldn’t be taking the course if we weren’t at least remotely interested in it.  But others, and I think I definatlly fit in this category would much rather watch american TV shows.  The book made it sound like people were starting to get turned away from “Hollywoods” way of doing things, and were starting to appreciate Canadas “simpler” way.  But I’m not so sure this is the case, because if it were then why do we still have all the american stations in Canada, and why don’t we have more Canadian stations.  If there were a high demand then there would be more.

 On a more positive note, I think that alot of people focus on the bad things associated with Television, but we ignore that while yes there is bad propoganda and indoctrination, there are also good forms too.  There are shows like Sesame street which teach our children manners, and counting, colors, etc…  Since we use television as our babysitters now, I think broadcasters realize this, and thus trying to put some positive things on the television as well, that teach all, and for those reasons television should not be totally criticised for indoctrinating our youth.