Watching television

If John Logie Baird had not invented the big black box called telivision,what would we have done?We would never have been able to watch cartoons,songs,serials and most important of that all news.Television is one of the most wonderful acheivements of science.With TV we can see the incidents happening all around the world.It is a powerful media of mass communication.It can provide education and enlighten our illetrate and ignorant masses.Television is an inescapable part of modern culture. We depend on TV for entertainment, news, education, culture, weather, sports—and even music, since the advent of music videos.In this crowded television environment, the key is to provide young children with a guided viewing experience and to model and teach them the critical thinking skills they need to be active, engaged viewers.Television offers lots of benefits to kids:Because of its ability to create powerful touchstones, TV enables young people to share cultural experiences with others.TV can act as a catalyst to get kids reading—following up on TV programs by getting books on the same subjects or reading authors whose work was adapted for the programs.Television can teach kids important values and life lessons.Educational programming can develop young children's socialization and learning skills.The National Geographic channel,Discovery channel,Animal planet etc. fully revolves round space,earth,animals....mostly everything in the universe. News, current events and historical programming can help make young people more aware of other cultures and people.Documentaries can help develop critical thinking about society and the world.TV can help introduce youth to classic Hollywood films and foreign movies that they might not otherwise see.Cultural programming can open up the world of music and art for young people.1) It tests your intelligence.Homeland Shows like Homeland or Sherlock, with their multiple plot lines and complex characterisation require a great deal of engaged thinking while watching. The complicated story lines in television series can actually make us smarter. 2) It improves your knowledge of the world.While there is no denying that we are much better travelled than at any time in the past, television can shrink the world and bring people, animals and places from all over the world into our lives.3) It’s exciting.Edge-of-the-seat thrillers, nail-biting moments in sports matches...... TV can certainly get your pulse racing.4) It can be educational and informative.Television is remarkably good at subliminal education. Intensely detailed and (mostly) historically accurate costume dramas, fly-on-the-wall documentaries....all drip-feed nuggets of information into your brain. 5) It makes you laugh.It’s true that laughter really is the best medicine, being shown to increase circulation and lower blood pressure and stress levels. But all too often, the days can grind by without raising so much as a flicker of a smile. So why not tune in to a favourite comedy show?It can be inspirational and produce good results. Shows like cookery shows are very much useful.7) It can be a comfort.If you’ve had a bad day at work, or are battling with a dose of flu and just need to “be”, the television can quickly take your mind off the problems at hand. 8) It makes exercise and tedious household jobs fly by.Can you imagine being on a treadmill or an exercise bike and not having something to watch or listen to?9) It can provide that “water cooler moment”.How often have you watched an episode of your favourite show and thought, “I can’t wait to hear what everyone has to say about this?” And with the huge once-in-a-lifetime events – Royal Weddings, the Jubilee, the Olympics – there is that wonderful shared feeling that comes from knowing that millions of people across the country are experiencing the same thing at the same time, a rare occurrence in our frantically busy, multi-channelled world.10) It gives families and friends something to bond over.When the whole family will sit down together to watch a particular programme, it can be a revelation. Hearing your family’s opinions about what they’re watching, marvelling at how different their response is to yours, laughing together, crying together – it’s not to be underestimated.Science(research) says that watching television can be good for you.Source:http://www.themarysue.com...TV can be educational: in a large-scale survey, 55% of 18-24 year-olds said they learned about politics from legal and government-themed dramas. It can also raise awareness of health and social issues.Source:http://positivenews.org.uk...Here some ways children can benefit from watching TV and movies.http://kidstvmovies.about.com...I cannot imagine life in contemporary world without a TV set.Watching TV can be both fun and educational.It is one of the greatest inventions of man.