Hey what can I say, television was once fun to watch. Whenever I watched it. I mean with all the worries that is happening within my black community, why should I care about watching television. And of course, I know my own answers. I know it is important to watch television, though it is crappy at times. I know it is away to inform and entertain but for the past years it has been away to manipulate and persuade. Lately, I have being ignoring the temptation to put forth even the effort to turn on the television. After along day of school and work why would anyone want to be bothered with the ignorance that surrounds the poor classification of entertainment, educational, and informational programs that makes up television.
Over the last several days my television habits sucked. I couldn't name one reality show, game show, or new talk show or program on any of the popular channels. I just found out who made it to the World Series. I know some think not even the news but with such a migrating and evolutionized industry who needs television besides for visual feeds that tells you what particular emotions look like and most importantly what race looks like. As a senior you just can not spare time to watch such mockery of every race but with certain classes you do have leisure time to read about it, surf the internet, find additional resources to remain updated in the news. Wasting thirty minutes on a television is a lot of time when you are headed to graduate school.
Let's break it down:
Sunday: Was a big day. I stayed up all night on Saturday trying to do something to my hair. than I woke up for church late. I always listen to Gospel music but its via desktop/ Youtubie. When I got back to church I had a meeting and NOPE no television there. However after church we did go to have lunch at Logan's and we watched the game on TELEVISION. Okay we are getting somewhere. That night I read some blog post, prepared for bed, read the Word and went to bed.
Monday: It's not looking to good on this day either. Three classes, work and homework. I left the house at 9 a.m. didn't come back in until 10:45 p.m. Laundry from two weeks ago is still on the floor. I have to organize my desk area and work on my research and production projects. Nope, no television for me
Tuesday: Left the house for work at 8:45. Luckily, we do have an humongous television but it is male dominated and we leave on the sports channel. That's how I discovered who made it to the World Series. After work, there is class and after class there is Maddrama Rehearsals and no television.
Wednesday: A glorious day of grace and mercy and the same as Monday. All work no play.
Thursday: I got up late but I did look on line for the news. Someone left the television on so I entertained myself briefly in the news and started my day. We had major rehearsal this night and we didn't leave until 1 a.m.
Friday: Was the big day for S.C.E.N.E. 60 coming out show. I went to class, took a nap, did some research on my topic, aaaaaaannnnnnnndddddddd I got a chance to watch The Game. It was an old episode but it felt nice to relax.
Saturday: I blew the weekend. I had to work a double. I had heavy blog reading. I permed my hair and sewed it in. I also did my roommate hair. The TV was on but we were too busy playing Spades and Scrabble to watch some BET movie. I know it was a black movie though.
Sunday: Was just the Lord's Day I didn't watch TV at all.
As you can see the lack of television affects me in two ways. One, I don't know whats the new shows, I don't know new actors or actresses, and it doesn't allow me with the capability to engage in conversation with peers about the entertainment on television. Why? BECAUSE I AM NOT WATCHING IT!!!! Two, I do develop additional skills and discover new resources to remain updated in the news by using different new media devices. So I would say I am compensating myself for the time wasting just sitting on my butt. Hey watching television doesn't give you good hand and eye coordination but typing does. LOL LOL LOL
It seems like the TV game has took a turn for the worst. But what we have to remember is TV is like fashion its constantly revolving. The TV show that we grew up watching are slowly diapering out of rotation. They are getting replaced with a new hipper and quiet frankly in my view WACk shows. Through this we see the power of Mass Comm. It can take a simple idea and speared it across the world and into your living room. Truth be told my TV habits suck also I couldn’t watch a TV show straight thought. I guess you can call me a channel suffer. Its almost as if you miss the first episode of a serious its extremely hard to fallow what’s going on. But television is good for getting news and other breaking stories out to the masses quickly and efficiently. I guess you just have to find the rite channel. LOL
ReplyDeleteAs mass communications major, it is our job to keep up with current events. Apart of that means watching the news. Bur it is so depressing these days. The economy is in shambles and the news is a constant reminder of that. Also, television stations show re-rund which can become irritating. I rarely watch television. I spend most of my time on the Internet. It would help television stations owners to stop selling the stations. For example, BET has not been the samw ever since Debra Lee took over
ReplyDeleteWell television has always been what it was, a screen with pictures. The thing that has revolutionized it is the new technology of high definitions with crisper pictures and the tivo that allows you to stop and rewind or even record your favorite show while you are away. That is one promising thing I see when it comes to the evolution change of television. I watches a lot of television on the weekends and it's mostly lifetime or some form of cartoon with my boys, but a lot has not changed because you can even find some of the same cartoons and shows that I watched as a kid growing up and some of those shows are still readily available for viewing by my children right now, so cble has made an impact with it's clevere rewinds and fast forwards, but other than that I dont see a big difference with television
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