Comments on: Don’t watch TV!

by: Agagooga

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:10:55 +0100

Erm. How about replacing it with a computer/net addiction? :0

by: tinkertailor

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:05:57 +0100

check out Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do about It by Jane M. Healy to know why Sesame Street isn’t a good show for kids.

by: Ivan Chew

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 23:30:50 +0100

My life would be a lot less interesting had I not watched Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Discovery Channel… the real issue is how much one spend their time watching TV. Too much of anything is inevitably bad.

by: mis_nomer

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:24:53 +0100

I don’t watch TV, and I don’t feel very smart. My buddy on the other hand, grew up watching TV and she knows all kinds of cool things, like how to tell a Russian accent from a Polish accent, or that Penguins only live in the South pole while Polar bears only in the north, etc. Go figure.

by: mainey

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:43:24 +0100

i’m sorry, but i would die without my favourite tv shows. i’d like to think i don’t watch trash, but everyone’s got a diff point of view anyways.

by: tinkertailor

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:13:49 +0100

if i watched more tv, u wouldn’t have had this post to comment on
i’m open to correction/suggestions, but i’ll still stick with “not proficiently spoken” here. thanx anyway.

by: Lingua Polizia

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:48:17 +0100

If you had watched TV a bit more you might have learnt to say “not spoken proficiently……” …sounds better right? Hur hur…. .But anyway, I agree TV is poison.

by: villagegirl

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:10:26 +0100

I haven’t watched tv in yonks! Only have been able to catch snippets of the news here and there. Now it’s always just me, my black beauty, my books, my notes and my songs…

by: elaine

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:56:50 +0100

I think that it’s true that TV as an only source of learning and entertainment, is harmful.

Children these days have a high tendency to have ADHD, which can be attributed to the fact that kids growing up nowadays spend less time on personal play, than on TV - instant gratification. Remember masak-masak, lego and toy cars etc? It stimulates the imagination for us more than TV does.

The TV however, is informative. Although now I no longer watch TV, when I do, I only watch Arts Central, CNA and Channel 5 for both mindless entertainment dramas as well as documentaries. But I have not become dumber or cleverer because I watch TV or not.

More like, I think I become better because I read. My mom says at 4 years old, I loved reading. Which probably meant that I didn’t need the TV that much anyway.

by: Baby Loy

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:06:22 +0100

Hey! I was a child TV addict before, not missing any single shows ,can sing and memorised the drama series theme songs.My parents did the same things too! They hid the remote control, plugged all the wires out, dismantle the video recorder from the main tv, scrambled the channels like scrambled eggs…i was so damm frustrated with them but to think of it now…it is for a good cause otherwise i would have save my eyes from wearing contact lenses! Geez!

by: Rani

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:08:17 +0100

I agree with you wholeheartedly. one clear reason on why TV is bad, is that it makes a person a passive audience of the dumbox which means he or she does not have control on what he is watching.

http://www.indrani.net/2005/04/celebrating-life-at-home-without-tv.html

Usually people would be surprised knowing that we do not have TV. they would ask these questions: “How do you get the news?” or “How do you get entertained at home”, or even worse, “What do you do at home without TV?”

The only way to find out the answer is to try it yourself. go live without TV for one week.

I also agree on your last P.P.S. I’d say I’m one clear example of it… as an Indonesian, my english is better than most indonesians. This is largely because I watch english programs when I was still addicted to TV.

If we have TV, we know what to watch. BBC and Discovery Channel, and all the non-english channels.