In the reading for this week there were three assumptions about entertainment. The first two were Entertainment is just for fun, and entertainment is merely a reflection of culture. The third assumption is the only one of the three that I personally agree with and that is Entertainment is a person choice. I believe that entertainment is a person choice because I believe that in order for something to be entertaining to a person, they have to have an interest in that certain thing, and they have to like it. The example i would use in this situation would be that if my girlfriend wanted to watch something on TV like Jersey Shore, I would not find that show entertaining at all. If i were to get any sort of feeling from that show it would be annoyance, and I certainly do not find things that are annoying to be entertaining. Although many people may argue that just TV alone is a form of entertainment, I would argue that not all TV could be considered entertaining.
While there are certain pressures from advertisements and media to push specific forms of entertainment, it is a person choice whether or not a person will like or dislike it. I'm sure someone who may not like hockey or any violent sports in general would not consider them entertaining. They would probably say that those events bore them, in which case they are not being entertained. Entertainment is something that we decide on our own, it's not something that is simply formed by culture or media.
I just wrote about that. I cant consider all of TV entertainment if some of the things I watch is embarrassing and painful to watch. To the point where I change the channel due to boredom/embarrassment, I can't consider that entertainment.
ReplyDeleteI love it when my grandparents call televisions "idiot boxes". Just the other day I overheard a family member talking about how they hope other countries do not base Americans off of tv stereotypes. Not every American is an orange drunken guido with loose moral values. I always overhear conversations at a diner I work at, and the latest popular topic was on how there is a television show for practically everything (Pawn Stars, IceRoad Truckers, The Walking Dead, America's Next Top Model) to a point where television stations appear desperate. The stations acknowledge that individual interest relay into what he or she will watch on tv, yet a majority will succumb into watching the new and greatest hit show.
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