Surez Rodrguez, Luis B.

English Language II

OPINION ARTICLE
(Topic: TV Has Always Had a Bad Influence on Society)

TV was invented as it is nowadays, in the 30s. Nevertheless, before that time it had taken place a period that has been called Prehistory of the TV, from the end of the XIX century to this decade of the 30s. However, TV has undergone a lot of changes from then: in color, images quality approximately the 90% of the people that I know watch TV usually, when I say usually I mean more than 3 hours per day. Many studies on TV have demonstrated that watching television so usually has bad consequences: It affects on peoples sociological interaction and on the other hand it transmits aggressiveness to easily led people. I agree with psychologists that say TV influences badly in sociability but I think that the problem is deeper. TV transmits unreal behaviors and unreal situations that are taken as real (in many American TV series or films there are many situations of this kind that people interiorize as if they were normal). This affects on their own lives because people think that their lives should pass in the same way. On the other hand, according to the aggressiveness I agree but it is also possible to transmit all the opposite things to aggressiveness. I think that the main problem of TV in that it is an instrument to create mentality. Since its first steps television was invented to give information. But this information is manipulated. In fact all the information we receive from TV has a tendency or it serves for introducing us behaviors. This is the worst thing TV could ever be from my point of view because all the people that transmit this information through the TV can control us although we dont notice it. But apart from this, TV means marvelous instrument for the circulation of information from all the parts of the whole world. Overall this is good for the development of science and to know the events in other places (although this information is also manipulated). I agree with the statement TV has always had a bad influence on society because of the bad influence on sociability, the creation of mentality, the manipulations of information but TV has also good things (although this things are also bad without our knowledge) as the circulation of information and the transmission of god behaviors apart from the bad ones.