Cases For Against TV

 

Cases For Against

 Invented by JL Blaird on 27th January,  1926, Television has now reached almost all the corners of the world.  TV technology is a'highly sophisticated and complicated one.  It is based on photography and its subsequent transmission through waves for reproduction on screen after a very complicated electronic process.  

Television, popularly known as TV, has given the world a new dimension in every sphere of our daily life.  Earlier radio provided all listening pleasure, but with the advent of TV life has become really interesting for people of all walks of life.  TV is an excellent medium for mass educa

tion.  In the western countries it is used even for running factories and offices and children attend classes with lectures transmitted on TV screen.  

It is used to control traffic, to detect shop lifting, theft and to check the entry of any undesirable person in any premises.  It is widely used in space technology, In short, it helps to keep an eye on everything from a distance.  It is an important medium of advertisement in addition to the recreation it provides for the young and old alike.  Drama, cinema and many important events are screened on it.  Important sports events are now screened on TV regularly, giving us an opportunity to avoid buying expensive and elusive tickets.  Now we can enjoy them in our drawing room comfort.  In fact, TV has brought the whole world inside our drawing rooms.  But is TV all that good and essential?  Has it not got its darker sides too?  Has TV not made people unsocial and more prone to relax before the sets rather than follow the age old custom of making social calls?  Guests feel embarrassed and unwelcome when they pay a visit to someone while a program is on.  

Thus TV is definitely creating a social disturbance.  It may be good for the old or selfcentered people-but what about its effect on the children?  They are always tempted to spend some valuable study hours while a TV program is on.  Moreover, TV leaves a great influence on juvenile mind.  Besides, some of the programmes, such as film shows, are not always entertaining for the whole family.  There are many ways to amuse ourselves.  We do not need a TV for this.  Spreading education through TV is nonsense, at least in India, where 65% of the population live below poverty line.  Where villagers don't have money to buy kerosene to light a lamp, can we afford to waste millions to entertain upper class people only?  Money being wasted on this project can be better be utilized to uplift masses.  TV can wait-hunger cannot.