The average person watches on average ten to fifteen hours of television during a week. This seems like an awful lot of time to be sitting in front of a television, but this time can be extremely educational and entertaining. A television equipped with a cable system has a number of educational channels. For example, PBS, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, The Food Channel, and even MTV are all educational channels. Documentaries, ranging from The Civil War to baseball

Overall television should be looked at as a great tool for our society. Education, entertainment, and information are all necessities in our lives and television can provide us with all three of those essentials. Despite all of this, television is still used as a scapegoat for many of our society's ills and is constantly singled out as the cause of these problems. When in fact, it probably has less to do with one thing, such as TV and more to do with all of society itself. Nevertheless, even if TV is responsible for a small part of these problems, it is still responsible for a lot more happiness in our lives than heartache.

The News! Enough said, well not really, but watching the news on the television keeps you up to date on world and local information. Television also gives you visuals with the information. A whole "New World" compared to listening to the news on a radio. With pictures the viewer can get a much better grasp of what went on, rather than just hearing someone report about the story. It also is p

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