In class we learned about the impacts of television on the world. Since television is more omnipresent, it was more convenient for people. I thought of how you'd have to drive all the way to the theater just to watch a movie, while all you had to do to watch TV was to grab a remote. Honestly, this has made us more lazy and causing us to stay indoors. I remembered how my mom would say stop watching TV and go play outside. This is true because people are not attending community events and instead watching them on television. An example I thought of during the lecture was the Churchill Downs races. Instead of physically going to the races, people usually stay at home and turn on the news station covering the event. Due to television, we are missing events in our community and we watch them from a 3rd person perspective.
I found that it was ironic that we talked about how TV ads were critical for politicians because before the lecture, a friend and I were talking about how almost all the ads were about the election for governor and attorney general. The ads are on so many times that you can even memorize them. I honestly did not know that we were electing a governor until the ads started to appear everywhere. This would be the reason that all of these advertising are critical to the politicians. If you don't introduce yourself to the public, then no one will know who you are and that equals no votes for them. Today, you can not win a political race with hardly any advertisements because many people have television and it would be easier to introduce yourself to the public. To me, the advertisements were annoying and repetitive, however I now know that they actually do have a significance.
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