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TV: The good; the bad; and the ugly

Awhile back in myphilosophy class, our teacher wrote the quesiton "Is tv good or bad" upon the board and the class had to split up into 2 groups on each side of the classroom.One groupsaying that tv's bad and another side saying it was good. Now your probably wondering what side I took... I said that is was more bad than good. Now being in a philosophy class you have to explain your reasoning for everything and my explanation of why television was bad was because it never really shows the real side of life. The turing point that as used as an example was that show called "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" that airs on ABC Familly. If you don't know what it's about, it's about this girl who gets pregnant in high school and she has to cope with the stress of having a child at 16. Weeeeelllllll here's the problem with that show... 99% of the actuall show is the teenage drama of regular high school garbage (hook ups, break ups, and other high school drama's) instead of this girl truly taking care ofthe child (which for a side note here; the baby is only shown maybe 5 times in a whole season) It honestly in my opinion is once again showing our generation that "drama is okay" and "having sex and children in high school is fine." Well it's not... Wake up world. :lol:So here's my question to you guys... It television really a bad thing or not and what makes it bad or not?