09.16 [TODAY]
Agree/disagree: The purpose of television should be all educative, not entertaining.
TPO 11
Attitude:disagree.
Structure:
point1: the purpose of television should be all-around rather than concentrate on one certain area.
>just as free market can bring us blooming economy, as information outlets, television should make information free to flow.<free information market>
>e.g. the rate of rape & the prohibition of pornography in Sweden.
point2: television show provider is a profitable organizaton. Dull TV shows cannot absorb enough information-receptor.
>in order to maintain a regular commercial environment, TV shows provider has the right to chosse the subject in a certain scope.
>e.g. assumption-->if all TV shows is educative-->low rate of TV-watching-->NBC lacks enough money to sustain its fundamental business.-->if government make a subsidy-->impossible for a government to save the whole TV market.-->depression of TV industry-->the rate of unemployment high-->the whole economy will face a negative influence.
point3:different TV shows can meet diverse demands of poeple.
>quiz show, reality show, sitcom, soap opera, variety show, news.
> In modern times, various demand is the subject.
summaries.
Can you imagine a scenario that one day when you turn up your television just for relaxing, it is broadcasting a show named Li Ming & Han Meimei provide by Confucius College, which teaches you how to speak Chinese. Little known about this language, you decide to change channels, but the next is a documentary of Albert Einstein, little interested in physics as well as some names relating to that, you want to try again, whereas, the third channel, the forth, the fifth, ..., which is all about a subject-education. Wouldn't that drive you so crazy? So, my attitude is so clear pertaining to whether the purpose of television should be all educative or not. I firmly disagree with the monopoly behavior of educative subject to television.
First, the purpose of television should be all-around rather than solely concentrate on one certain area. Just as the free market can bring us blooming economy, television, the information outlets, should also make information flow freely. And this free information market can have a function like metabolism, which can continuously excrete the "toxic" information. Furthermore, unlimiting the purpose of television could play a role in sustaining the societal stability. In 1980s, Sweden Crime Statistic Bureau has ever made a experiment regarding to the relationship between the rate of rape and the policy of prohibition of pornography. The result struck people a lot because more severe the prohibition is, higher the rate of rape is, which is a perfect proof to that free information market is necessary and the purpose of television should be diverse.
Second, due to the profitable characteristic of TV show providers, so hard for them to capture enough eye balls that lift their rate of TV-watching under the circumstances that only one educative subject is provided. Therefore, in order to maintain a regular commercial environment, TV shows providers should and must have the right to choose the TV subject in a certain scope. Let us make an assumption of NBC, if all TV shows of NBC is educative, owing to its limited receptors, low rate of TV-watching is unavoidable. In a long run, NBC will face a severe financial crisis. And this time, government prepares to make a subsidy. Considering of the depression of whole TV industry, the government decide to give up the subsidy because this behavior will further exceed the budget. Then, corporations bankrupt one by one, the rate of unemployment rises so high. And the whole economy will face a disaster. Thus, from the perspective of market, the content of TV should not be restricted to educative subject.
Third, different TV shows can meet diverse demands of people. Living in such a multi-demand world, one supply provided only makes people feel dull and dissatisfied. Thus, that's why quiz shows, reality shows, sitcoms and many other different types of show birthed.
All in all, TV should not only be seen as a tool to educate people, it is a box full of all kinds of information. Anyway, only facing a educative machine will make people bored to die.
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