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Man's alien! ion span is very short- In order to capture a
viewer's attention, television must provide constant stimulation
through variety, novelty, action and movement. In doing so, news
is rather short, and it results in inefficient communication; much
of the news is like "machine-gunning with scraps", and it destroys
the coherence of thought. The TV's appeal to the short attention
span is decivilizing as well. A voiding complexity means sacrificing
thought. Among adult Americans, there are more and more
"functionally illiterate" people, who even cannot answer the want
ad or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle. At least,
TV is partly responsible for this. Television, since its first
prevalence over radio in the 1950s, has played a more and more
important role in people's lives. Some are of the opinion that TV
is enlightening. It has become so much a part of human life that a
modern world without television is unimaginable. But I, on the
other hand, argue against TV. I think TV's disadvantages outweigh
its advantages. I want to draw your attention to the fact that
television is decivilising. In the first place, watching TV takes
too much of our time. Children rush to TV immediately after school.
Some people sit in front of TV all day long. In this way, reading
is entirely ignored. Do you remember the days when we had no TV?
We read stories, listened to radio programs from which we benefited
a lot. I dare say that the generation accompanied by TV will be less
literate. In the second place, watching TV doesn't involve much
thinking. When we take up reading, we need to think and imagine
before we can thoroughly understand the writer. However, when we
watch TV, what we have to do is to open our eyes and enjoy whatever is shown. Little by little we will become slow in thinking.
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