BA #4

Just by looking at the title, the author’s biographical information, and the first line or two of each paragraph I sense that the article will discuss how the television has affected our social lives. Jake Mulholland and Adrienne Martin are student’s who have researched, planned, and wrote the article, “Tune Out”. They decided to conduct an experiment to discover how much television has been a negative impact on our social lives. My expectations were met. I believed that the average person would watch about four hours of TV a day. Many people love to watch TV. Their experiment was that they kept track of their daily lives and recorded how TV and movies influenced them. In their experiment they found that TV was consistently watched, it’s not that is was scheduled out but was consistently watched around the same time everyday. In the article, the example was given that, “when Jake gets home form school, he automatically turns on his TV. He instinctively turns it on…It has become a habit. I believe this is true, on Mondays and Tuesday I watch a show on MTV, therefore, it has become a habit to me. Both Jake and Adrienne state how they believe that TV is not watched effectively. TV can be a major distraction, more important things could be getting done but instead people are glued to watching television. I know sometimes I will stop an assignment that I am in the middle of just to watch TV. The one thing I thought would have been in the article is both
what people are watching and the time frame, not just the time frame. A lot of what is watch on TV is useless but there are some educational shows that are teaching us and not just a distraction of one’s time.