According to my observation, people waste so much of their precious time watching non-informative and cheap entertainment on TV channels. This trend has also resulted in people becoming less interested in the habit of reading.
For example, one whole day is lost to a cricket enthusiast, when he/she sits watching sports matches on the TV. The availability of entertainment channels, which air movies after movies, can be another spoiler.
Millions of people spend their weekends and evening hours glued to the TV sets, and some even sleep with the channels on. People turn out to be recluses, and the trend may affect the natural growth of children. Today’s kids are addicted to cartoon programmes beamed on channels and do not find time for games and physical activity. Mothers spend their evening hours watching TV series, which are often far removed from reality.
A few decades down, there was a culture of libraries and people were declaring book reading as a hobby. Now, it would be a rarity to find voracious readers, who take pleasure in reading books for information and not for leisure alone. The diminishing library and book reading culture can adversely affect the thinking process of humankind and civilizations may cease to exist in the absence of creative thought. Though TV can urge thinking, the fact that one may be avowed by the scenic and picturesque façade, make it difficult for quality imagination and productivity.
TV has also done damage to the indigenous culture as people come to see live cultures and civilizations and become inclined to them. It is a fact that people who live remotely and do not have access to modern audio-visual technologies keep their cultural fabrics intact, while others dilute essentials of indigenousness to embrace duplicity.
I believe that as TV cannot be done away with, there should be a self-regulation on what to watch, when to watch and how much to watch.
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