Television: The Informer or The Conformer

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Television The Informer or The Conformer?

• Christopher Frills
• North Lawndale College Prep Charter HS
• 10- March 2009

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Television denies urban American youth a positive
lifestyle.
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TELEVISION IN THE WRONG

• Reality TV Shows
• News Stations
• Talk Shows
• Sitcoms
• Movies

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Ill-mannered and Violent Behavior is Made
Acceptable by TV.
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TV can be harmful to the upbringing of the child.

• Zimmerman states Television viewing was related
  to an increase in bullying and violent behavior.
  

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This effect goes beyond the daily social
interactions, but more involved issues.

• The interpretations of images and messages can
  be a contributing factor to health problems such
  as violence, substance abuse, poor nutrition,
  body images, and risky sexual behaviors (Cox).

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Those who do not consume any television do not
have to render themselves to the high risk of TV.

• In the number of hours of television watched
  per day at the age of fourteen years of age is
  associated with an approximate 25 percent
  increase in probability of being described as
  bullies (Jackson).

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Urban Communities Are Being Killed Because of TV.
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It is believed that media will be the death of
American urban communities.

• The media is killing our community (Cosby and
  Poussaint).

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The media has a very powerful influence, however
it is undermined in many ways.

• Unfortunately, corporations are powerful, and
  some are more interested in profit than the well
  being of other people.

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Those who have no TV literacy will believe all
that they see on television.

• Children do not appreciate what an advertisement
  is doing until they are about eight years old.
  Younger children tend to believe what an
  advertisement had to say (Cosby and Poussaint).

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TV consumption prevents academic prosperity.
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The media is a addictive to the point of taking
away from good study habits.

• Today the electronic mass media, particularly
  television, exert increasing intellectual on
  every adolescents. (Hepburn).

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Television is not only to blame, but has a great
deal to take credit for.

• By graduation from high school, student will
  have spent only about 11,000 hours in school but
  between 15,000 and 20,000 hours watching
  television (Cox).

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Media affects youth academically, possibly
holding our country back as world academic
leaders.

• Critics are also alarmed that continual viewing
  of numerous action television shows socializes
  youngsters in a negative way by presenting
  obnoxious life situations (Jackson).

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Media promotes positive lifestyles and is
sometimes recognized for it.
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HOOP DREAMS

• This documentary follows two inner-city Chicago
  residents, Arthur Agee and William Gates, as they
  follow their dreams of becoming basketball
  superstars.

• This piece was indeed inspirational and promoted
  a positive lifestyle.

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The PACT

• All too often we hear about the dangers of male
  friendships, where peer pressure prevails over
  common sense. But rarely do we hear about another
  kind of male bonding.

• We grew up in poor, broken homes in New Jersey
  neighborhoods riddled with crimes, drugs, death
  Jenkins 3

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IT IS UP TO US!

• Monitor.
• Deconstruct.
• Question the Motives.

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• Works Cited
• Cosby, William H., and Alvin Poussaint. Come On
  People On the Path From Victims to Victors.
  Nelson, TN Thomas, 2007. 133-56.
• Cox, Carol. ""Good for you TV" using
  storyboarding for health-related television
  public service announcements to analyze messages
  and influence positive health choices.(Teaching
  Technique)(Report)." Journal of School Health 78
  (2008) 179-84.
• Davis, Sampson, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt.
  The Pact Three Young Men Make a Promise and
  Fulfill a Dream. New York Riverhead Books
  (Hardcover), 2002. 225-31.
• Hepburn, Mary A. "Media literacy a must for
  middle school social studies. (Special Section
  Dimensions of Middle School Social Studies)." The
  Clearing House 72 (1999) 352-57.
• Hoops Dreams. Dir. Steve James. Perf. Arthur Agee
  and William Gates. DVD. 1994.
• Huesmann, L. R. "The Impact of Electronic Media
  Violence Scientific Theory and Research."
  Journal of Adolescent Health 41 (2007) S6-S13.
• Jackson, Leigh-Ann. "Who's teaching the trends?
  The Strokes, the Hives, Reese Witherspoon and
  even Mom. (Lifestyle)." The Austin
  American-Statesman (TX) 24 July 2003.
• Quinn, Gordon. "Hoops Dream Interview." Telephone
  interview. 11 Dec. 2008.
• Tracker, Katherine A. Journal of School Health
  (2007) 54-57.
• Zimmerman, Frederick J. "Does TV breed
  bullies?(bulletins NEWS ABOUT PREGNANCY, BIRTH
  PARENTING)." Mothering July-Aug. 2005 24.

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Television Influences

• My Sincerest Gratitude