LIF3 ACCORDING TO TV

In Life According to Television, Harry F. Waters only confirmed what I partially already believed, that televisions hidden victims are women, the elderly, blacks, blue – collar workers, and other groups, for the majority of the time we are negatively portrayed. For example African Americans are almost always the criminals, or drug dealers, and the elderly are always helpless. And sadly because television is watched as often as it is, if we aren’t strong – minded enough, we begin to believe what we see, and ultimately begin to view ourselves as those same images that are portrayed on the television screen.
I was also surprised to learn from reading this text that I am an extra, extra, heavy television viewer. [They say heavy viewers watch more than four hours a day, and I watch twice as much]! I wonder if it’s still possible to take the Annenberg Team survey to see just how much T.V. has altered my acceptance of reality. Hopefully not, I mean television can only have the power over us that we allow it to have, and I can say that I am very much attached with my reality [if that makes any sense].

Finally, not really following the whole article on the Black Bart phenomenon, which I think I have some recollection of, coming across a few of them myself growing up in New York City, I had a better time relating to the article written by, Maribeth Theroux, which talks about MTV’s Sexual Objectification of Girls and Why It Must Be Stopped. Being a very big fan of the reality, dating, MTV, show, NEXT, about a guy getting to go on multiple dates until he found someone he liked, and vise versa, I never realized how demeaning it really was to women, until now. When ever a girl was getting to go on dates with guys, the contestants all had their own unique style, look, and size. As for the women, all of them wore clothes that was covering less skin then was appropriate for television, and for the girls who had any class, leaving their bodies to the man’s imagination, they was yelled, “NEXT,” to before they even got a chance to fully get off of the bus. I mean how sad is that? Is that really the image that the most popular network wants our future girls to live by, that the only way to get any male attention is to let it all hang out? What happen to having dignity, respect for yourself, and maintaining your self worth? Those are the type of messages that they should be teaching us. But I guess if it isn’t negative, sex related, or drama filled, it isn’t worth air - time (:/).

GIRL CONTESTANTS TALK SEXUAL ON MTV's DATING SHOW NEXT