The disadvantages of television

Though there are many advantages of television, there are also a lot of disadvantages of it. The following may be some of its drawbacks:

  1. Television is a great time-waster.

  2. Television passes on to children the corrupting values of a corrupt society.

  3. Television is to blame for the fact that children take longer to learn to read these days and barely see the point at all of acquiring this skill.

  4. The very danger of watching television lie in the fact that the viewers take no initiative. He makes no choice and exercises no judgment.

  5. Television takes up too much of our time. we no longer have enough time for hobbies, enjoying activities and other outside amusement like theater, cinema, sports etc.

  6. People rush home, gulp their food, which is as simple as sandwish and a glass of beer, and start watching the television programmes.

  7. People have grown addicted to television, often neglecting the necessary and more important things like meals, sleep and even work.

  8. Unfortunately all our free time is regulated by television.

  9. Television make the viewer completely passive because everything is presented to him without any effort on his part.

  10. A lot of parents use television as a pacifier. They often put their children in front of the tv set and don't care whether the children are exposed to rubbishy commercials or spectacles of violence as long as the children are quiet.

  11. Most of the programmes are bad and they do not keep pace with the high demand of viewers and do not maintain high quality.

 12. The wide coverage of television programmes has reduced the society to the conditions in pre-literate communites: we are utterly dependent on the most primitive media of communication: pictures and spoken words.

 13. What the viewer receives from television is nothing but second-hand experience. He is completely cut off from the real world.

14. The more the viewers watch television, the lazier they become.  They are glued to the television set instead of going out.

 15. Television prevents people from communicating with each other. it has done a lot of harm to the relationship between family members.

 16. Watching television needs absolute silence and attention. No one dares to open his mouse during a programme.

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