Despite my disagreement with how most of the world engages in watching television, I believe there is a way to demonstrate some good out of it. In her collection, Alyssa presents a link to a series of photographs of people fully engaged in television sets from the dawn of the television after World War II until the 1960's. (( http://life.time.com/culture/life-watches-tv/?iid=lb-gal-viewagn#1 )) The only writing provided for this photo-gallery places television under a negative light and, while child obesity, apathy and higher murder rates are an actual consequence derived from television, there are still some positive aspects about it that are clearly illustrated in this photographs.
Because these photographs illustrate a time where television wasn't such an accessible comodity, many were brought together to experience special ocurrences or just the evening sitcom. Television, at that time, served as a form to congregate people and allow them to socialize. Nowadays that concept has been transformed. Because most have access to a television set, it's prone to secluding people physically yet many congregate for special televised events or speak and socialize about whatever they saw on TV the day before.
I don't think that, under the light of bringing people together, television is a bad thing. I am only against it when it promotes laziness and becomes a loss of valuable time.
-Bettina
