Although the experiences are "unearned", people can still be benefitted as they "go through" those stories that don't belong to them. While expericing the "unearned", teenagers should be able to absorb as much knowledge as they do in real life, thus they can apply it throughout their own lives. It is true that "the television addict and the drug addict are alienated from the hard and scary world,

Since the first set of TV came out, human information technology has stepped into a new era. In additional, TV also benefits teenagers a lot by letting them absorb others¡¯ experiences, and apply those ¡°unearned¡± experiences in their lives. Teenagers who treat TV as a source of entertainment lose themselves in TV world. We cannot account this as a problem caused by TV; it is just due to those teenagers use TV in a wrong way. But if they realize the correct usage of TV, they will be successful in their lives.

/* too negative, a way of learning when watching tv. not addictive, experience life, study on only minor group of young people.*/

Hamill is wrong, when he says ¡°television, like drugs, dominates the lives of its addicts¡±. Televisions and drugs are totally two different things; we should not relate them together. When Hamill compares television with drug, he insults the inventor of television because drug can only damage human¡¯s body and society, whereas, human life has been improving rapidly by television. Televisions let people easily get information around the world. However, Hamill suggests teenagers to get news from newspaper rather than television, and his reason is that television doesn¡¯t give enough time for viewers to think before next set of scenes are showing. Thus, he concludes that viewers are passive. This idea is false for several reasons. First of all, Hamill ignores the fact that television provides 3 dimensional image and sounds which books can never give their readers. With those visual and audio effects, audiences should understand the content right away, n

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