TV: The Worst Invention Ever?

TV: The Worst Invention Ever?
Nowadays, TV has become a necessary part of people’s daily life. Some people believe that TV is destroying our society and is the worst invention ever. There is no denying that TV does have some drawbacks to society. For instance, watching too many TV shows wastes people’s time and hurts their eyes. In addition, broadcasting many diversions on TV can make people’s mind more superficial rather than reading books to do self-improvement. What’s worse, exaggerating actual news on TV may mislead society’s opinions toward truth. As depressed as it sounds, however, I don’t agree that TV is the worst invention ever. I believe TV’s advantages outweigh its disadvantages. As a matter of fact, TV inspired many other inventions created afterwards, acts as the connection of a family and motivates the country’s economy. To begin with, the reason I disagree TV is the worst invention ever is that TV played a basic role in creating other relative inventions afterwards. Though the majority of TV functions can be replaced by computers or iPads nowadays, TV led the technology trends and played an essential role in history.

Based on TV technology, there comes VCD, DVD, HDTV, Internet TV, Blu-ray, and 3D. TV has been the main medium and broadcast material for many years and has enlarged its basic function to improve other technologies and products day by day. TV is the ancestor of modern broadcast. Another reason I oppose is that TV can share happiness with family members and make them united. For example, in China, almost every family watches The Spring Festival Gala broadcasted by CCTV (China Central Television) on New Year’s Eve. The Spring Festival Gala contains various shows: song, dance, magic, comic dialogue, short act, etc. All the audiences may enjoy the show and get involved with them. While Chinese are watching the TV shows, they usually play mahjong, chat with each other, and eat the feast on New Year’s Eve. It is a tradition that we Chinese count down with the Spring Festival Gala and then set firecrackers to welcome Spring Festival. TV connects every family member and brings lots of valuable memories. What’s more, family members may watch other important events on TV, such as the Olympic and Super Bowl, etc. Last but not least, TV is not the worst invention ever because TV can motive the industry and whole country’s economy.

If TV disappears, the majority of weatherpersons, news reporters and anchorpersons will probably lose their jobs because newspapers and internet news don’t need too much relative stuff and their positions may reduce rapidly. What’s more, we can’t put all the TV dramas (such as Glee) and TV shows (such as the Voice and X factor) on the Internet or sell them as DVDs, thus they are likely to struggle to die away. On the contrary, if the government supports TV industry booming and developing, they can make numerous profits through Ads and rebroadcast copyrights and spread its own country’s culture to the world. In conclusion, TV is not the worst invention ever. TV is vital to human beings’ history and life. TV acts as the inspiration, the connection and the motivation that will lead people to a colorful life.