TELEVISION
Television is one of communication tools that is used to get a lot of information quickly. Besides that, television functions to give entertainments to the spectators.
Nowadays television has a big part to influence the spectators. We must be careful to select the programs on television because there are many positive and negative effects from television.
The positive effects are :
· We can get a lot of information or news from many places around the world.
· We can get many entertaintment from television. The entertainment can make us happy and change the situation from bad mood to good mood.
· We can learn many things about movies, games, sport, adventure and so on. For example, the movie which has a title “Iron Will”. It tells about the strong spirit and struggle in reaching aspiration.
The negative effects are :
· The bad movie can influence the spectators to do bad actions. They imitate the actions that are shown on television.
· The spectators who are addicted by the programs on television will feel lazy to do the other things. They spend most of their time in front of television to watch the sinetron (short role play/drama) and so on.
· The children who watch the adult movie (the movie that is not suitable to their age) are very dangerous if they imitate the actions in the adult movie.
After knowing the positive and negative effects of television, we must be careful to select the programs on television in order that we are not trapped in the dark world.
