Blog 7

The Dangers of Reality TV

In “The dangers of Reality TV” Timothy Sexton states that television brings to people some dangers. He tells television strengthen and sent some terrible messages that can worse influence to people. Those messages such us the importance of the competitions, image more important than ability, and education is not key to get a lot of money, are forced people to think same. I know Timothy Sexton is right that television is the reason for some improper thinking because many people have started to believe that education is not important to make money, enough to take some competition to become rich, and an image is most important thing for success.

Sometime we can meet or see success person who achieved a high position in our society, but he or she didn’t like to study, or didn’t get any Degree. For example, Bill Gates, he was excluded from Harvard University and he didn’t be graduated, but it’s didn’t thwarted him to became one of the rich person in the world. Another person, who was most famous all over the world and without Diploma of Degree was Steve Jobs, he was founder of the Apple Corporation. These just only two examples, but our history has many such as these famous people. Thus, people can see and hear about such people and believe that they don’t need to take long time to study for getting lot money.

Another message that destroyed people’s thinking is the participating in competition make people rich. According to T. Sexton’s example when he said that woman who found a multimillionaire in reality-show, and that man made her his wife. It messages people to try participating in the same reality-shows, and they will be rich, too. However, not all of the participants can be winner. For instance, a lot of young women try to be a model. Every time many of them try to exhaust themselves with different diets to be a certain size of the body. But just only few of them become models. Even though, it doesn’t break their thinking, and they continue to do that.
However, most of the cases, we must have well image to be rich and successful. The image plays an important role for our success, despite of some personal talents. For example, when people vote for a president, they don’t know well him, but them enough to know his image or a reputation in the society. Other example, when you want to get some job, first of all needs to make well expression on an employer. The employer will make first decision of employee of looks, style of wearing, and ethic of behaviors. After that, the employer can ask questions about profession. I remember one man told the story about his first interview to get job in New York. He is a professional engineer. He came in the company and had been dressed in jeans and T-shirt. The employer just asks him few common questions, and didn’t even interest about his qualification. However, he got a job in other big company, and now he got high position in there. He told us that story and wanted to say that first impression is so important for successful ending work. The author of the article also refers on an example of the American Idol. He says that a better voice is not so important than image.

In conclusion, these messages indeed can burn into people’s mind and can form improper thinking. They may consider that the studying is not significant thing, and do not need to spend a lot of time to study; competition and image make people rich and successful. Therefore, people have to ask themselves for what the filmmakers created these reality-shows. At first, the filmmakers interest to make more money for themselves. They don’t care of people’s thinking; they just want to drag in many people in those reality-shows.