Reality TV shows are a bad influence on people
Reality TV shows have a negative influence on viewers according to this article. While reality TV was intended to show real people in real situations, most shows follow scripts and choose attention-grabbing characters. Studies have shown that heavy TV viewers, especially teenagers, see the behaviors on these shows as normal even when they depict alcohol abuse, casual sex, and bad language. Additionally, families now spend more time watching and discussing reality TV than interacting with each other. As a result, important family values and traditions are being replaced. The article concludes that reality TV depicts shallow behaviors and sends the wrong message about life, so parents must control what their children watch and maintain open communication to prevent them from absorbing unrealistic values.
Reality TV shows are a bad influence on people
- 1. Reality TV shows have a bad influence on people Ana Maria Luna I remember that a few years ago people used to spend their time in family, talking to each other and sharing experiences; however, through time the way of entertaining people has changed and with this change a new kind of television appeared. Reality TV programs were introduced to show real people doing real things and they are well accepted by the audience all over the world, especially among young people; nevertheless, are these kind of TV programs a good influence on people ? First of all, they are fakes. They supposed to show the truth, but almost of them follow a script. Reality TV shows are so attractive to people because TV producers choose carefully special characters for the program; besides, they design conflicts to catch the audience’s attention. Secondly, in recent years reality TV shows have increased and with them disturbing amount of causes related to alcohol abuse, casual sex, bad language have grown. According to a recent study from the Florida state university American teenagers who are heavy consumers of television will have a different or altered perception of society in comparison to those who watch little television. Teenagers look at the characters of the TV shows as models of imitation even if their idols have bad behaviors. It is really disturbing that teenagers think that alcohol consumption or early pregnancy being normal attitudes if people on TV are doing the same. Everyone knows or has heard about Jersey shore. It is an American program created on 2009 which is the perfect example of all the bad behaviors already mentioned. Thirdly, since the turn of the 21st Chilean families spend a lot of their time in front of the television. It does have any sense that the only interaction between a family is
- 2. talk about what happened in the last episode of a program. It seems that family values and traditions have been forgotten, sadly. We have to be concerned about the kind of message that especially children and teenagers are receiving. As sponges, they absorb everything that they hear and see. As a conclusion and summarizing, reality TV shows are fakes, they depict a lot of shallow behaviors and they send a bad image of how life can be. I believe we are responsible of our attitudes and parents are responsible of their sons. Personally, The most important thing is that parents control what their children are watching in front of the television; moreover, a good communication could be useful to maintain a clear vision of what real life is.