Bill McKibben's claims about the negative effects of TV may have some truth in them but there are many instances where he "over-catastrophizes" the dangers of the media. He believes that, "TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided." He speaks of being able to do things like gauge the wind or identify the weather just as farmers knew how to in the past, or spending years as an apprentice to learn the ways of a certain art. People are becoming more detached from the natural world and because of that missing out on vital knowledge that we need to survive. To me though, TV was a natural progression, an advance in technology, just as the light bulb or the radio. Its an efficient resource that can give us information on almost anything we want, and who is to say that that is a negative entity. I do though, agree with McKibben in many of his arguments about media shaping our perceptions. In this paper I......
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