Is Today's Television A Source Of Entertainment Or A Source Of Information?
Television, as we know today, is used in many different ways. The first thing that almost everyone does when he arrvies home is turn on the TV. Is it because he wants to get entertained or because he wants to hear the news? Probably he wants to get the news.
First of all, the entertainable side has moved to computers where anyone can watch exactly the videos they want, play different games and listen to music. Everything is in one place. People can read the news on the Internet as well so getting the news about what is going on is not impossible when one does not have a TV. The television is more comfortable in watching the news, however, because they are brought to people so that they do not need to do anything more than to turn it on.
What is more, at least one third of what can be seen on TV is commercials. They take a lot of time and this is one of the reasons why people today do not like to watch television. They are extremely annoying especially during the movies. Some scenes in the movie are usually cut out because in other way it would last too long with the commercials. Movies are the only entertaining things in television. At least in Estonia.
On the other hand, these commercials, that you can not avoid, are starting to appear on the internet as well. Commercials are very good money makers for the famous sites and that is why they probably can not resist it.
Television is very good for watching the news. They are brought to viewers in a good summary and that is why it is comfortable. But on the entertaining side television has a lot to work on to be competitive with the computers today. Television does not fill the need of every person in entertainment but the news are everywhere pretty much the same and that is why television has more potetial in giving people information.
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