Television is being a prevalent device nowadays. It’s such an extremely important invention which has successfully grabbed people’s attention. It’s fully guaranteed that each family in this world, especially in a big city, has at least a set of TV supported with amazing sound system. This situation also happens in my life. Indeed as a part of this millennium era, my life has already been defiled by the modern lifestyle which is definitely related to a rapid lifestyle and TV takes a part in my life.
In this writing, there are some TV programs that shape my life. Since I can’t live without cartoon, there are some favourite cartoon films that I’d like to share in this writing. In order to fulfil my information needs, there is my favourite news program on TV supported with some reasons. Talkshow and Reality Show become the last two TV programs which grant many values upon my life. Those four TV programs help me a lot in diminishing modern lifestyle boredom.
Cartoon teaches many things regardless customs and culture. Cartoon is funny drawn character which is usually acts like man (Collins Cobuild Dictionary). Even though it’s created by someone who has different culture from the audiences but it gives the same values to them as it’s universal. Mostly people say that cartoon is ideally consumed by todlers and children, whereas adults shoud have thrown it aside by the time their maturity signs appear. However, cartoon is actually also ideal for adults in shaping their maturity. Indeed it’s not seen from the fool action done by the characters, but from the values behind which are secretly released by the writer. Let’s take an example from Nickelodeon cartoon channel; Spongebob Squarepants.
Spongebob Squarepants is a cartoon film exposing human life which takes a setting beneath a sea. Spongebob is potrayed as a yellow sponge who lives in a pineapple house. This cartoon film is not only supported by Spongebob as the main character, but also Patrick and Squidward, Spongebob’s neighbours, and Mr. Crab who is Spongebob’s boss. From this favourite cartoon film, the animator release some values secretly behind its entertainment purpose. One of them are friendship.
Friendship value is released in one of the Spongebob Squarepants episodes. One day Patrick got an accident as he fell from a cliff. The accident caused changing behaviour on Patrick for he lost his brain and it’s replaced by someone’s brain who had already died. Patrick lost his memory about Spongebob. Spongebob was so sad for the changing behaviour, so was Patrick. Then they decided to redo the moment before the accident and finally they found Patrick’s brain. Then Patrick said, “I prefer to lose my intelligent and become a fool rather than losing my friend.” This touching sentence teaches us how worthy friend is. Wealthy and intelligent are no longer paramount when there are no friends beside you.
News program gives me two benefits which help me a lot in my life. In this modern era, the need of rapid information become so important. People never waste their time on reading newspaper excessively. In the past, I used to read my favourite newspaper every morning. However in my contemporary living, reading magazine and newspaper are no longer my habit. I prefer to find the information by watching some news program on TV. My favourite news program is Indonesia Now. It’s a news program conducted by Dalton Tanokana who is a Japanese news anchor. It’s an amazing news program as it’s delivered in English and always up to date in news. By wathing the program, I could get the current information as well as learning English and it help me in my education.
Reality show melts my frozen heart. From the Collins Cobuild Dictionary, reality show is a TV program about ordinary people who is filmed in real situation. One of my favourite reality show is Andai Aku Menjadi. It’s a show exposing someone who is actually has a good life and challanged to live in a bad condition where everything is so limited. He or she has to live with a family in a certain remoted area and he/she has to struggle to live. This reality show really opens my eyes about the society around me. They are not as swell as I depict. The reality show grants me many valuable things about life; struggleness, thankful, and sharing as well as sharpen my sensitivity towards my society. The reality show also inspires me how to live in a balance way where everyone is connected each other and that we need to help each other by sincere sharing.
Talkshow releases your mind and reveals your mask. Talkshow is a TV program of famous people who are asked about themselves of discussing a certain subject (Collins Cobuild Dictionary). There are many reality shows on TV either they are broadcasted from International TV or National TV. One of the reality shows is Oprah. It’s lead by an amazing person and viewed by many people around the world. Oprah Winfrey serves it elegantly without taking aside familiarity. She tries to help her guests to release their minds without interference and it helps them a lot. By watching Oprah Show, I know another side of other people as a coin which has double sides. It makes me realize that no body is perfect, someone must has a dark side besides the bright side.
Cartoon, news program, reality show, and talk show are the TV programs I like. They don’t only fulfil my entertainment and information needs but also shape my life. They take a big part of my life and enlighten my life to step on my future. If somebody say that TV gives you nothing, actually it’s not merely true, it depends on what kind of TV program you watch and how you take benefits from it. TV does influence your life.
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