On a normal day, humans watch many hours of TV. During a week humans spend most hours watching a visual image and hearing the sounds that are reproduced on screen. Parents would think that their kids are watching TV too much, television doesn’t stimulate your brain, they might say. In the article Watching TV Make You Smarter by Steven Johnson, he gives the ways that watching television can mentally stimulate the mind to think in new ways. There are many shows that require thinking due to analyzing multiple plots. Doing this extra thinking during a thirty minute or hour show can improve thinking and actually make you smarter. Steven Johnson gives facts in the article to try and persuade the audience to agree with him using rhetoric stagiest. Johnston uses ethos, logos and pathos, many times during the article. Johnson uses ethos to build up the…show more content… Johnson says, “If your kids want to watch reality TV, encourage them to watch Survivor or Fear Factor, Instead of shows with wardrobe malfunctions or the F-word. The show should be engaging, not predictable punch lines every thirty seconds. The counter argument is that media have gained in realism. We should have entertainment like “The Sopranos.” Johnson says, “I happen to be sympathetic to that agreement, but not the one I want to make here.” (135) There are other ways to analysis, look at the cognitive work out and not the series of life lessons. There are “Negative messages” in media today, but not they only way decided if Television or games are having a “Positive impact.” It is the kind of thinking you do to make sense of a cultural experience. Johnson makes a fallacy when he tells us that when television shows are complicated, they can lead the watcher to “mental nourishment”. When you watch television your mind works, watch TV to problem solve. TV shows mentally stimulate the mind; they have multiple plots that help us learn while we are
