Does television play a positive or negative role in the modern world?

Arguments

1. Television is now playing a very important part in our lives.

2. Television is not only a convenient source of entertainment, but also a comparatively cheap one.

3. Television keeps one informed about current events, allows one to follow the latest developments in science and politics and offers an endless series of programmes which are both instructive and entertaining.

4. A lot of television programmes introduce people to things they have never thought or heard of before.

5. Television has been good company to those who do not work, like housewives, lonely old people, etc.

6. Television provides enormous possibilities for education, like school programmes via closed-circuit television.

7. Television provides special broadcasts for those in TV university, or open university. It also offers specialised subjects like language teaching, sewing, cooking, painting, cosmetics, etc.

8. Television does the job of education in the broadest sense. Instructive programmes achieve their goal through entertaining the viewers.

9. Compared with the radio, everything on television is more lifelike, vivid, and real.

10. Television may be a vital factor in holding a family together where there are, for example, economic problems and husband and wife seem at breaking point.

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