"TV Is Good for You" By Joel Waldfogel (Slate)
The central argument in Joel Waldfogel's article, TV Is Good For You, is that television has the power of empowerment, only for rural Indian woman.
In Waldfogel’s article, TV Is Good For You, he says that TV has the power of empowerment. It has the power to teach and help spread knowledge for Indian rural women, only if the audience is. The article uses data collected from different states in India from 2001 to 2003. The date he saw proved that TV has the power to enrich. In his article, he only mentions that TV is con for Americans, and that is it. No reference made to other people of different ethnic background.
When I was a little boy, I had television at home I think. The memory has been lost since TV never influenced me. When I moved house to the semi-rural part of the country, for the first two years there was no cable or dish TV. I doubt that dish TV was around, but the idea of wanting a TV never came to thought. I used to listen to the radio.
Years after that, we moved quite a few times, and places were lonely, that was when TV actually came into my life. I got addicted, I used to come after school, finish my homework, and then finally watch some TV. It became a problem, and I was only allotted an hour a day. That rule stayed for a few years, until I lost interest, and now I barely watch, I do not feel the need to watch TV just because I am bored.
Introducing, the TV program into the lives of rural Indians has both its pro and cons. Yes is true, that some channels have enrichment programs and have the power of empowerment. I can name a few that I know; they are Nat-Geographic, Animal Planet, The Discovery channel and the Science Channel. That is far as it goes. News channels cannot be added because those channels are corrupted with false information. Just like Waldfogel says, " Women with more education have access to better jobs outside the home”. Anyone with an education may get a job, but the problem comes down to that women can not leave home, and the area because they entitled to staying at home and looking after family, another reason for that is the whole village needs to has to be connected to urban world, that mean losing old habits. Introducing TV does not connect people; it is just like a parasite travelling across the globe colonizing and spreading media influenced programs. Waldfogel says that TV has improved the rural Indian women understanding of raising a family, and keep the family alive, and prosperous. It can only go that far, other channels pose a threat to who ever is watching. It will become an n addiction. Attitudes will change, people will change, and their mindsets will change. I was reading a Nat-Geographic magazine once; the topic was TV and the Brain. The magazine said, the people tend to believe that what they watch on TV is conversation happening in real time, therefore is the actors can do it, so can the audience watching the programs. TV series have become violent over the years, and most of them have the same theme, action and love. Children and teenagers watching TV are the first to be affected through watching TV, the whole can family can disintegrate even though, the idea was directed to rural woman. This TV program could influence other variables that could change life.
There is evidence of what The TV program has done to the some people in a country like
USA. Waldfogel says, ”Americans tend to denounce television even as they devour it”. Indian people will change, so will the rest of the world. The TV program will influence, change and create a new world through its power of empowerment.
Source:
Waldfogel, Joel. "TV Is Good For You." Slate Magazine. Slate, 20 Aug. 2007. Web. 07 Mar. 2012. <http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/2007/08/tv_is_good_for_you.html>.
The central argument in Joel Waldfogel's article, TV Is Good For You, is that television has the power of empowerment, only for rural Indian woman.
In Waldfogel’s article, TV Is Good For You, he says that TV has the power of empowerment. It has the power to teach and help spread knowledge for Indian rural women, only if the audience is. The article uses data collected from different states in India from 2001 to 2003. The date he saw proved that TV has the power to enrich. In his article, he only mentions that TV is con for Americans, and that is it. No reference made to other people of different ethnic background.
When I was a little boy, I had television at home I think. The memory has been lost since TV never influenced me. When I moved house to the semi-rural part of the country, for the first two years there was no cable or dish TV. I doubt that dish TV was around, but the idea of wanting a TV never came to thought. I used to listen to the radio.
Years after that, we moved quite a few times, and places were lonely, that was when TV actually came into my life. I got addicted, I used to come after school, finish my homework, and then finally watch some TV. It became a problem, and I was only allotted an hour a day. That rule stayed for a few years, until I lost interest, and now I barely watch, I do not feel the need to watch TV just because I am bored.
Introducing, the TV program into the lives of rural Indians has both its pro and cons. Yes is true, that some channels have enrichment programs and have the power of empowerment. I can name a few that I know; they are Nat-Geographic, Animal Planet, The Discovery channel and the Science Channel. That is far as it goes. News channels cannot be added because those channels are corrupted with false information. Just like Waldfogel says, " Women with more education have access to better jobs outside the home”. Anyone with an education may get a job, but the problem comes down to that women can not leave home, and the area because they entitled to staying at home and looking after family, another reason for that is the whole village needs to has to be connected to urban world, that mean losing old habits. Introducing TV does not connect people; it is just like a parasite travelling across the globe colonizing and spreading media influenced programs. Waldfogel says that TV has improved the rural Indian women understanding of raising a family, and keep the family alive, and prosperous. It can only go that far, other channels pose a threat to who ever is watching. It will become an n addiction. Attitudes will change, people will change, and their mindsets will change. I was reading a Nat-Geographic magazine once; the topic was TV and the Brain. The magazine said, the people tend to believe that what they watch on TV is conversation happening in real time, therefore is the actors can do it, so can the audience watching the programs. TV series have become violent over the years, and most of them have the same theme, action and love. Children and teenagers watching TV are the first to be affected through watching TV, the whole can family can disintegrate even though, the idea was directed to rural woman. This TV program could influence other variables that could change life.
There is evidence of what The TV program has done to the some people in a country like
USA. Waldfogel says, ”Americans tend to denounce television even as they devour it”. Indian people will change, so will the rest of the world. The TV program will influence, change and create a new world through its power of empowerment.
Source:
Waldfogel, Joel. "TV Is Good For You." Slate Magazine. Slate, 20 Aug. 2007. Web. 07 Mar. 2012. <http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/2007/08/tv_is_good_for_you.html>.
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