"Is Reading, more beneficial than Television??" By Shivona Chandiramani

                                                                                                                       8^th April, 2011 J                        

                             Is Reading Books, better than Television??

In the age of television, reading books is not as important as it once was. People can learn as much by watching television as they can by reading books."

Day in and day out, the masses huddle in front of the magic box in hopes that it will entertain them. 

No, I’m not talking about a toy box or even about a computer terminal; I’m talking about what seems to sometimes be synonymous with God almighty — the television. It utterly amazes how so many networks can all recycle the same garbage and call it entertainment.

Fifty some-odd channels on and not a thing that most people even remotely are interested in watching. The sole virtue that TV seems to possess is that it can occupy the mind undemandingly. For the record, I do own a TV, and I do have cable (FOXTEL), but I don’t sit there the whole day occupying myself to it.

I do get some use out of it, I just do not think that just because I don’t watch TV that no one else should. 

I just find it disturbing how many fat, lazy couch potatoes there are out there who will engage in such behaviour when they actually do remove their lazy butts from the couch as they to proceed to tear up the entire room just to look for the remote when they could simply get up and manually change the channel. I can think of a million more productive ways to spend one’s time. First and foremost, why not 

try reading a book?

Instead of sitting in front of the TV all day long, you could be reading a fascinating book and broadening your horizons.

I have received a great many rewards from reading, such as an extensive vocabulary and much better grades on papers, because even if it isn’t class-related, writing a better paper never hurt anyone’s grades. 

For movie buffs out there (not saying I'm not one, HaHa), many of the great movies are in all actuality originally based on books, and for the record, the books are always better because they are so much more informative and allow for greater immersion into the story.

So the next time you get the urge to watch some mindless, tasteless, regurgitated garbage on TV put down that remote, do yourself a favour and curl up with a good book.

I hope you have gained a lot of knowledge on my report on “Is Reading Books better than Television??”

By Shivona Chandiramani J