How I See Television :: Personal Narrative Media Entertainment Essays

How I See TelevisionI love television receiver with all my heart, I also hate it with a passion. I have many reasons for my emotional dyslexic connection to television. I love the feeling I get when Thursday rolls around and the Apprentice is on NBC. Who will be eliminated tonight? What will their task be? I love Home and Garden Television. They do home renovations in two eld time, show us how to plan and carry out a fabulous dinner party in an evening, and demonstrate how to create fabulous decorations for any vacation season. DIY or Do It Yourself television is equally inspiring, though neither are actually inspiring enough for me to have attempted any of the projects I intimate about, but that is beside the point. When I would talk about different shows, my friend would get a confused look on his face and say, Im non familiar with that show, if its not on PBS then I wouldnt have seen it. That is the defining statement of a PBS snob, he admits it. contrasting people could fill in the PBS designation with the History Channel or the Discovery Channel. At that point I knew it was futile to even attempt to convey how funny the show was that I watched, it would have been lost on him. There is a sense of superiority when people say, Oh, I adoptt watch television. Like we immediately picture them reading War and Peace instead of watching the finale of The Bachelor. I think of them as alcoholics that dont allow themselves to watch any television because they would soon find themselves sitting among stacks of pizza boxes and bags of trash, watching Stella plan her big day on Whose Wedding is it Anyway? Its on HGTV if you are interested. Last year we signed up with Dish Network and now get about intravenous feeding hundred channels. Part of the package includes a PVR, or personal video recorder. We can record up to 60 hours of programming and watch a save show while another is recording. My goal is to avoid commercials as they waste valua ble time. Several months ago, actually it was four days before the presidential election, our television started acting funny with squiggly lines every so often.