Draft Essay_Siti Nurohmah

                        Be Selective Watching Television!

            Since television was invented in 1925 by John Logie Baird as information and entertainment media which continues developing, it becomes something which cannot separate from human life. Human need is the major cause of it. Therefore, not surprisingly, watching television becomes a popular habit in the world either for children, teenagers, or adults. Although there is a thought that it is just waste of time, but here, I will show you two reasons why it is not just waste of time especially for college students.

            The first why watching television is not waste of time, we can get a lot of news from it. Kind of news is various. It can be political news, who give us information about how political situation in domestic even foreign political situation. Even less if we are political students which need more information about political related to lecture. We get social news and know about social phenomenon which happens in society especially for them, the student of social department and the social scientist who splash around in social department. Then we also can get information about economic news about price increase, stock index and the other which is helpful for us, especially for student of economic department even economist. So, we can imagine that from the two dimension box we can have opportunity to be full of knowledge by getting information especially from news in this case.

            The second, we can get entertainment which can be one of the ways to refresh our mind from the daily activity. But before enjoying it as an entertainment, we also have to be selective choosing the program on television. As we know there are a lot of programs of entertainment which give less education even gives no education at all. So, we have to know how to choose the good entertainment. One of the ways is choose program which give us entertainment but there is knowledge also that we can get from it. For example, the television program of travelling or vacation which not only gives us freshness but also gives more information about guide to travelling.

            From both of the reasons, we can conclude that watching television is not waste of time especially for college students but it is depend on them who can be selective in choosing the television programs which can enrich the knowledge.