Nowadays, television is a very significant medium for public. People usually spend their spare time in front of televisions,and for sure, the effect of televisions is very great. For this reason, many people, especially parents, assert that all the programs in TV should be made in educational purpose rather than in entertaining purpose. However, it does not sound reasonable to me. First of all, entertaining is as important as education for people. Also, if there are only educational television programs, all the channel will look so boring. I will discuss in detail.
To begin with, for modern people, who live their day time in hustle-and-bustle working places, entertaining is very important. They feel stressed by too much work and difficulties in relationships with coworkers. It applies to students either. Students spend their whole day studying for good score in many exams. This also give students a large amount of stress. Therefore, after working and studying, they want to relax themselves and to take a rest. In this situation, television is very effective tools to relieve their stress. While watching comedy show and soap drama, they feel that they have escaped from the realities and they are able to forget the stressful works and studies. Actually,When I was in highschool, I spend nearly every evening watching the television program which dealt with computer games. Because, during the day time in high school, I could not play computer game and I had to only concentrate on my studying, I suffered from so much distress. Naturally, the time watching that program was the most precious time for me and by watching that program, I was able to relieve my stress and be refreshed. Not only I but also my classmates often spend our morning time in school telling about what we had watched last evening in TV. In this sense, television should offer watchers entertainment as well as desirable programs.
Also, if there are only the programs with educational purpose, all the channels in TV will be very boresome. Of course, people do not want to waste their precious spare time watching not interesting programs. Let me take the channel EBS for example, which is a national education channel. It offers people only desirable programs such as classes relating to every subjects and soap dramas which deal with only educational materials. Obviously, students often watch the channel to improve their academic performance, but when it comes to usual people, they are reluctant to watch that channel, and instead of it, they choose entertaining channel for their spare time. It is because, although EBS is very good for collecting knowledges and wisedoms, it is so boring and does not offer them enough interests. This shows that how much fun the television program gives is a vital factor to modern people.
To sum up, there are apparent reasons that the purpose of TV should be entertaing rather than only educational. People can get fun by watching entertaining TV programs and by doing so, they can relax and relieve stress. |