The Problem with T.V.

"...I get up and switch on the television...This is the door I open to let the world flood in, and this is the world that comes to me" (27).

I agree with the narrator in that the television can be a portal to the world for some. However, should we let it? Is everything that we see on t.v. true? I have to disagree that what you actually see is "the world." In my opinion what I see on NBC, MSNBC, ABC, etc... is not the world. What I see is businesses trying to make money and spoon feeding me outrageous and exaggerated images and language to catch my attention. Its too easy. I don't even have to think because they do it for me. If you get caught up in it, the debates, analysis, and helicopters hovering over Britney and Paris-not the city- seem to be important; you feel "in the know." But, if you distance yourself from the media, then you realize how trivial it all is. Instead of having someone shove an opinion down my throat, I'd like to be able to go out into the world and experience it first hand. I want to see the world. I don't want to see it through a t.v. screen and someone else's eyes.