Is Today's Television A Source Of Entertainment Or A Source Of Information?

 

Almost  everyone has a television in their homes. Some people watch it a lot, while others use it mostly for  watching the news and sometimes movies. Nowadays television is not so important, because we can watch  these things and a lot  more from computers. Unfortunately Estonian channels do not show much documentaries,  whereas they have more different television series. For me television seems a source of entertainment.

Firstly how many people watch the television to get a information? Few, because it is easier to use a computer.  Moreover we depend on the television, because if you want to watch the news, you have to wait until certain time. Fortunately we have opportunity to use a computer and we can get quickly for example the weather forecast to make planes.

Secondly what information the television give us? Sometimes you watch the news from 2 different channels  and some information that they tell us is different from each other, so can we trust these sources? Estonian channel rarely shows documentaries or television shows, from where we can learn something. Furthermore they make new television series, although we have already  these too much. Despite that people tend to watch a lot this kind of television shows. On the one hand it is wasting a time, as you can use this free time for readying a book, doing sport or something useful. On the other hand people are tired after long work day and they would like to relax a little bit, so it is comprehensible.

Nevertheless the television has a lot of series and  advertisement, there are some especial channels like discovery ones, which are very interesting. During one show they do not show advertisement and they have  good documentaries. Furthermore a variety is big, so everyone can find something, what they like. Whatever channel it is, at least the news have true information, what we can trust.

All estonians do not have much channel, someone has only Estonians channels, while others have british, russian and german ones too. It depends a lot, what kind of channel you watch, but in Estonia you can see from television more entertainment that get information.

 

Helen Urbel

11.B