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TV Trash? - Online Term Paper

TV Trash?

“Surprise I’m cheating on you with my twin, Guess what I’m really and man, and I used to be fat now I’m all that.” Those are just some of the show titles on daytime TV. Watching the Jerry Springer Show with my girlfriend I never thought that show was a peephole into our culture. I would always watch the shows for fun and purely entertainment, and not to see how supposable lives our lived. Can our culture be defined by daytime TV? How is our culture defined? I will be looking at two essays with two different point of views on our culture.
In “Announcing a Public Campaign Against Select Day-Time Television Talk Shows” William Bennett states that all day-time TV is to blame for our ...

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problem in our society today. Children are watching and learning the immoral truths of today’s society. But ask yourself where are those children’s parents? Bennett wants to eliminate the talk shows so then our culture can be cleansed, but are the talk shows to blame for our so-called culture rot. Shouldn’t we look to point the finger at other television shows? Bennett would disagree, he states that “the worst of television is the day-time television talk shows” (29). His rightwing, conservative attitude would say that we should ban all daytime talk shows to eliminate the problem in our society. Now if this would happen it would be called censorship and with that word will came a lot of trouble. Could banning all daytime talk shows infringe on our 1st amendment rights. Something Bennett could have overlooked.
In “Bring in the Noise” Ellen Willis writes that, “our problem is not the excesses of talk shows but the brutality and emptiness of our political culture” (37). We ...

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Added: 10/1/2007 01:10:52 AM
Category: Social Issues
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