Better Than Reality

Rita peacenik, Pulitzer Prize winner, poet, and author, claims that we often prefer watching television more(prenominal) than we prefer reality because the TV offers an easier tale to tell in her article Loose Ends (816). Whenever soul is recapping last nights episode of their favorite TV show to a garter or psyche they love they often find themselves explaining it with such(prenominal) emotion, whether it be astonishment or anger at the delegacy the events played out, this is most apt(predicate) because that small screen offers a frequently more evoke plot development than what we compass our everyday lives to be. Non-fiction writer and activist, Todd Gitlin, in his article Super Saturation, or the Media Torrent and Disposable look adds that there is so a lot media surrounding people over they go these days that it is catchy not to be sucked in by all of the images roughly us and makes it easier to prefer this deputy world that is that a few feet away. To support Doves statement, author of the Plug-in Drug, Marie Winn, compares the dependence of television viewing to creation addicted to a legitimate drug, because like certain drugs it advise provide you with a opposite form of mental stimulation (807-808).\nPeople who grew up after the invention of technology, which is a profound majority of the people brio today, dont feel a world in which televisions, radios, or telephones are not nearby, or at to the lowest degree know where one could be found. Gitlin compares todays plaza decorations to that of famous painter Vermeers time to emphasize the percolation of media and technology in homes (809-810). In the 1600s not much changed in the homes, when Vermeer would paint a specific scene of someones home some(prenominal) times there were only minor changes to the scenery (Gitlin 809). Homes throw definitely changed since then and tolerate changing constantly, Gitlin says that today, Ninety-nine per centum of [American] children liv e i...