Avid Viewers
Avid Viewers
Avid Viewers
time watching television than engage in other activity, aside from sleeping and working.
Rothwell also stated that on the newest social science research, it shows that the
quality of shows and television networks can influence us in important ways in which it
shapes our thinking and political preferences and even affects our cognitive ability and
day-to-day basis. He also added the latest evidences suggest that there can be
are more on entertainment. Regarding to Rothwell, “you are what you watch” as
statistics have shown that the avid viewers of specific television networks in the United
States of America are having these lifestyle which are being depended on what they
watch over television networks. These specific television networks have been partially
and fully affected and influenced how people (middle and high income earners) act on
every day basis from the clothes they wear, the food they eat, and even the places they
are going. These was because of the television shows and networks these individuals
are watching and for being an avid viewers, they have already adapted the culture being
Rothwell, J. (2019). You are what you watch? The social effects of TV. New York
Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/upshot/social-effects-television.html
Gutierrez (2020) on his article stated that according to Repalde, an avid Filipino
Philippines. However, on May 5, 2020, even though there is a Covid-19 pandemic in the
country, Ms. Repalde’s television went dark as President Rodrigo Duterte have
effectively and entirely shut down the network broadcasting giant. In addition to this, it is
not just Repalde who have depended their everyday life in the network but also more
than 90 percent of Filipinos have spent their lives especially their free time watching
ABS-CBN network. According to these avid network viewers, now that the network have
been totally shut down, they don’t know what’s happening in the country especially in
this time of pandemic where communication and information is a must and badly
needed. Moreover, these avid network viewers have stated that not just the news have
been deprived to them because they have been depended on the network on their
everyday life. With that, as the network have been totally shut down, their life have been
missing something, they are feeling of something incomplete inside them. The new
culture and lifestyle of other network (GMA) is not easy to cope with that so easily,
Repalde added.
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