The (dis)advantages of loving TV

Personally, I love TV. Now does that make me a bad person? I don't think so. There are so many well made shows out there right now that it's ridiculous and I'm sad I can't watch them all. Some of the ones that I make sure to watch every night though would be House (which just started, the premiere was only ehh for a premiere) Burn Notice, Psych, Covert Affairs (great new show 1st season just ended) and White Collar. There are many more shows which I love and would watch them all when they air if weren't for the fact that they're on at the same time as others!!!! It is these shows which I then turn to "other means" of accessing the next day such as Chuck, How I Met Your Mother, and one I want to check out is The Event. Now, that's a whole lot of shows and there are plenty more too because I really do love TV so I think that my knowledge on this topic is relevant.

TV has many ups and downs to it just like any good roller coaster. TV is a great source of entertainment and a stress reliever at the end of a long hard day at work or school. It allows you to kick back and relax which of course led to the TV dinners, one of the uglier sides of TV. TV, and the shows on it are becoming I suppose racier as time goes on with young impressionable minds watching all these shows. These kids, our future, our becoming so (I lack the knowledge of the right word here) that all this violence and sex and all these other supposed "bad" images are becoming like nothing and they just don't notice it or because they see it all the time on TV they don't think it's bad. We are losing our old values which we used to hold dear such as home cooked family meals will now involve Kids Cuisine in front of the TV (not me thanks to my parents) but overall as a society and generation we are becoming more (I NEED TO KNOW WHAT WORD THIS IS) but it's still up for debate whether that is a truly bad thing or not. TV also sucks because of commercials and ads (especially political adds, i hate them) but for me when i watch stuff on the air or via cable I just mute commercials and a lot of places have some sort of DVR or they will simply use "other methods" to watch their shows which leads to them being commercial free.

Overall, I think television is a positive force for the individual and a very weak negative force for society which equals a very weak positive force overall.