People learn more by watching television than reading books.. |
For as long as I can remember, people have been debating the pros and the cons of the statement that watching television is much more beneficial than reading books. From my personal angle, I strongly agree with the above statement for the following two reasons. My two points are as follows: watching television offers us more instant and prompt message than reading books as well as audio and sound effects are helpful for people to fully understand the information. To begin with, watching television provides us more instant and quick message than reading books. Nowadays, there are a number of books that give people useful information and life lesson that can greatly affect the readers’ lives. Books, however, cannot convey a certain information instantly without the delay of time since it would takes amount of time to publish the books, in contrast, television broadcasting is a real time way of transmit the news. Thus, we are more likely to exploit the television than books in terms of promptness. To illustrate, take 9.11 accidents as an example. The day of catastrophic terrorist attacks, nobody can anticipate such terrific situation could happen. Accordingly, television broadcasting played a pivotal role to notify the situation of accident all of the United States by instantly transmitting the scene of the casualty and collapsed building of the accident. Needless to say, people are obviously understood what is going on and how bad it was without any time delay. However, it was more than a week that some of the books about the accident were published and stated the consequences of the indescribably horrible attacks. Therefore, had it not been for the television, it would have taken more than a week for the American citizens to know about the accidents. In this sense, watching television is much more indispensible than reading books in terms of fast conveyance of information. In addition, vivid audio and visual effects are also beneficial to clearly figure out the information than those of reading books. Some people might assert that reading books is more critical since it improve the readers’ imagination. However, sometimes, readers can misunderstand the authors’ intention and purpose which are hardly happened in watching television with vocal and visual aids. Thus, there is now wonder than watching television is wise choice to get clear picture of specific events. According to a survey recently released by the Korean National Research Center, more than two thirds of the surveyed television viewers responded that the first reason for their watching television is getting obvious information by offering sound and visual influences. They also mentioned that those effects lead them not to underestimate or misunderstand the situation or ongoing controversy. Thus, watching television is quite beneficial than reading books in terms of audio and visual effects. In this context, it is quite obvious that we would like to choose watching television than reading books if we do not want to get into the false impression of the objectives. In brief, watching television needs to be considered positively in terms of promoting the viewers’ perspective and interpretation. Watching television provides people quicker and prompt information than those of reading books as well as audio and visual effects are helpful for people to fully understand the information. In general, I wholeheartedly, believe that the very first thing we should do now is admitting the importance of the watching television as the key to open the door of our future development. |