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Opinion essay, from Rocio Bressi.

"Television is a good educator"

Is television a good way to transmit education? it could be the best communicator to inform and show how the world is going on, but in my opinion people should be more careful about what they are watching or what they think they are learning from it. I strongly believe that people are wrong when they affirm that television educates.
First of all, the channels that used to be educational were degraded by advertisements. for example, some channels like Vh1, which is a music programme, used to show people educational things about the history of rock and popular music. But now it is full of reality shows and that degrades the thoughts of the people.
Furthermore, television programmes that show the news of the world, most of the time lie or do not tell all the truth, in particular the programmes that have an agreement with the government.
Apart from this, people are more involved in watching television than reading the newspaper which apart from educating, improves the reading. Moreover people do not watch interesting channels that could be educationals like National Geographic, most people watch reality shows or entertaining programmes such as Showmatch, Susana Gimenez or others.
It is argued that television is not good or bad, it depends on how people use it. But they forget that excessive television viewing has been blamed for increasing aggressive behavior in children since their parents do not tell them what to wathc, what is right and what is wrong.
Taking everything into account, I have to say that people who say that they learn things from television are wrong. television is just to spend leisure time, watching movies, the news or maybe an interesting channel about art, music or it could be history, but it is not to be educated.