The Effect of TV on Our Youngsters
Television, a source of much knowledge,
pleasure, and information, and a widely used media of mass communication, is
now being looked at from a different point of view. Is the TV really doing us,
especially the youngsters of our new generation, good or bad? It is an
important question both to ask and to answer indeed. Looked from an educational
point of view, the TV is to be considered one of the most effective means of
educating both the students and the public as a whole. Again, it has almost
become the most effective and popular means of people’s recreation. Films,
dramas, songs, dances, comedy series –all these are very attractive packages of
programs. As a means of communications TV is, though not the most important,
yet the most effective, means of communication. Up to this point, we must say
the TV is doing good to our youngsters by educating them and by giving them
recreational facilities. But as far as the satellite TV is concerned, we cannot
say this for sure. The commercial package programs broadcast by satellite TVs
are detrimental to our youngsters, pernicious to our societies, threatening to
our values and traditions and religious beliefs.
