Monday, November 3, 2014

Class Response: TV, Too Much Influence?

Television had an overwhelming influence on the masses, as we discussed in class. When you see someone wearing an outfit on TV, you instantly accept at as an ordinary part of the fashion world. Someone watches a story on increasing crime in the neighborhood, then that person might begin to lock their doors at night. The question is whether this influence is a good thing or a bad thing. The answer to that question is a very complex and difficult one. It's the same as asking whether or not propaganda is a good thing. I think that it's really all in the way you use it. Obviously influencing the fashion world doesn't seem to be too harmful unless, of course, it becomes a TV trend for characters to wear a Swastika pins. It's all in the way TVs influence is used.

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