USE & ABUSES OF SATELLITE TV

Television is the most common and widespread source of entertainment of the present world. Television now telecasts a wide ranges of programmers aiming at viewers of all classes and all ages and their diverse and demands. And satellite has added a new dimension to TV programming and telecasting. In fact satellite television has appears the whole world live in the box, and entertain us and inform us of all that is happening around the world.

Now in the present world, with the advancement of communication and technology, people’s tastes and interests have changed a lot. Television wonderfully and very effectively, is satisfying people’s interests and demand for entertainment and information. Television in general and satellite channels in particular air programmers of varied interest that people of all ages and all classes enjoy. Television programmers are not only entertaining; they are highly educative and informative too.

 Television and particularly satellite television provides people with round the clock news service and keeps them informed of the latest affairs happening around the globe. Besides giving news, views and information on various issues of the current world, television also show reports and analysis on trade and commerce, business and industries, economic and financial activities, agriculture and weather, new discoveries and opportunities. So, business world as well as researchers get valuable support from TV. TV channels very often telecast games and sports live. In fact, watching games and sports on TV has become a good source of recreation, and this also helps popularize games and sports.

 Television plays important role in business world. Television shows advertisement of different products and give them a wide recognition. Thus, it promotes business and commerce.

Satellite channels has removed monotony of watching fixed items of programmers. In fact, today we have specialized satellite channels on almost every interest. There are some channels which broadcast only news round the clock, some only show cinemas. Some channels show game and sports only, some channels show only the discoveries and inventions of sciences and technology and again some channels are dedicated for traveling animal world.

For every invention, there are some demerits. Television is not free from harms Television has great influence on young generation. In fact, many young people are addicted to watching television. It kills their valuable time that ultimately affects their study. Obscene and amoral films, drama of music, videos can influence young generation to evil doing. Indeed, satellite TV is now being seen as a means of cultural assault on developing countries by western nations.

Spending a lot of time for watching TV also affects productivity and work-efficiency. Much watching of colour TV is also harmful  for eye-sight and brand, and causes irritation. idleness and sleeplessnes.

Conclusion: As a Source of news and information and as a means of entertainment and recreation, television is still very popular and its effect is far reaching. It should be used for pure and harmless recreation and for constructing an ideal society.

CINEMA ITS USES AND ABUSES

Cinema is the popular name for motion-picture which is made of a integrated series of innumerable photographs projected with the help of light on a celluloid screen. When sound is introduced along with the projection, the pictures reflected on the screen are found  to talk and sing. Such pictures are called talkies. Cinema is, in fact, the result of optic delusion.

No other invention of science has evoked so sharp difference of opinion than cinema because nothing else is so evenly divided between good and evil. Cinema is useful immensely useful to all classes of people, young and old, rich and poor, duffer and intellectual. But cinema also cam be immensely harmful and lead a whole generation of man to the dogs. It all depends, however, on how it is organized and for what purposes motion-pictures are utilized.

A right kind of motion picture with an edifying theme is an invaluable source of delight and recreation which is so essential for mental and physical health. We get recreation also from other sources-books, radio and the stage. But none else can give it so thoroughly. nor can absorb the mind so completely. That is why thousands and thousands throng around the cinema halls every day.

Cinema has also great educative value. Only the literate section of the people has access into books and papers. But all without exception can enjoy a cinema show and learn therefore. Besides, as the motion-pictures teach through entertainment, the mind receives the lessons quickly and easily.

They turn up for sheer recreation and return unknowingly with a lot of instruction too. What an admirable method of teaching indeed. If properly organized, films can yet become more perfect agencies of teaching all subjects of human study-literature, philosophy, science and economics and so on. He who has once seen the picture of Macbeth by Shakespeare or Caesar and Cleopatra by Shaw know much better of both the books than he who has read them even twice or thrice. Fall of Berlin” is a better history of the Russo-German fight during the World War II then any book needing days together to read. Similarly, if a government want to propagate a scheme or even to inculcate a lesson of health, there is nothing on which it can depend more than the screen.

But the cinema has as well a dark side as it has a bright side. At times and not infrequently, cinemas ignore higher and motives in order to appeal to the vulgar taste of the multitude. Designed primarily to return the investment several times, producers often make their pictures too vulgar for any man of taste to see-throwing in silly romances, absurd situations, corrupting songs and vulgar dances. Such pictures demoralize society as a whole, particularly the young. Censor Boards are always there and exist in all countries. But their scissors have so far failed to cope with the producers crafty brains.

In order to prevent the evils of cinema and to harness it to the higher needs of society, every country should have a board of cultured men with high powers to cheek the production of unhealthy pictures. Instead of subjecting pictures to post-production censor, the story, the sceneries and the outlines of songs and dances should be got approved by that board. In short, every conceivable measure should be taken to ensure that the power of the cinema may not be used to used to reap individual profit at the cost of social morality.