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Watching Tv Makes You Smarter Analysis

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Steven Johnson the writer of “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”, argues that TV programing has become more cognitively demanding, and therefore believes that watching TV and playing video games are somehow beneficial to the viewer (278). He even states that TV programing focusses on the same “mental faculties ascribe to reading such as attention, patience, and retention” (280). I partially agree with Johnson when he says that programing and reading share the same attributes but me personally think that you get a lot more out of reading, reason being that there is a lot of work behind it you have to create and connect all the characters and plots while at the same time making sure you do not lose your train of thought. In the other hand television shows lays it all out for the
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Yes, I myself have become a victim to some violent TV dramas as well as Teenage
Pregnancy shows, however, at the end I cannot help but feel dumb for watching something that is not challenging me intellectually, In the other hand when I watch a Documentary, The Discovery Channel, or even Forensic Files anything that is informational I can’t help but feel like I have learned something at the end and I do not feel like I just wasted an hour watching something useless like the other shows. So yes at the end, it falls on the viewer to make the right choice when it comes to watching TV. Johnson encourages parent to allow their children to watch what amuses them but also to change the way of choosing these shows for them by not relying on the content but by what is nourishing for them (293).
As a parent I find it very hard to keep the children away from the television set when pop culture influences them, they want to keep up with watch what the other children around them are

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