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TOPIC: ISSUE38 - "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."
WORDS: 632          TIME: 1:40:28          DATE: 2007-3-11

In such era that filled with modern technology, it is commonly viewed that television has gain its dominant position in knowledge learning process due mainly to its certain advantages, meanwhile, an opposite opinion holds that reading books remain the most effective way of learning for some benefits which cannot be substituted by television. Nevertheless, in this age that calls for increasing efficiency, an equilibrium between both of television and books is required for the better future of our world.

The prevalent dominance of television among modern mass medias no doubly has a direct link to its ability of providing more objective and thus more convincing evidence to certain historical events. The disinterest nature of video machine makes itself a nearly perfect role in supplying television pictures, or films with little prejudice and biases, while none of human beings is free out of the entangle of interests conflicts because of his or her involvement in the society. For example, the objective television records of the cruel guilt of Nazi partisans in World War II provide an undeniable evidence for executive these criminals after war. And the video tapes of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s passionate speech "I have a dream" gain its  historical significance for its accurate records of Civil Rights Movements. However, without such television scenes, any narrations, or written documents would not be that plausible regarding to its unavoidable subjectiveness. Therefore, a television documentation has been a more effective way to learn about the past occurrences.

Even for the obvious benefit of more neutrality, a documentation of television type is not invulnerable, since it possibly risks the subjective and deliberate edit of the journalists, or television managers, thus preventing it becoming even more important role in providing information. An striking instance illustrating such risk involves the television tape edit of California Police's outrages upon a black citizen. The television station simply cut a video tape into the ruthlessness of Police which mislead and provoke the sentiments of audience. So, an over emphasis on the television for gaining information may result in a dependence to it and therefore block the better use of other kinds of information.

Considering the weakness of learning only from television, benefits of reading a book for knowledge become observable and complementary to documentation of television kind.

Firstly, books, as a kind of written or printed documentations, can provide credible and substantiated evidence in political, diplomatic, and business fields. The signing contraction of a diplomatic treaty between countries, or a commercial deal may establish its fame in the course of history, and thus giving this written document much value in the study of this very events. Also the commencement of a law, with its great impact to the society, will inflict much interest and desire to study the printed edition of this law among lawyers and social researchers in relative fields. By contrast, a television view of a treaty, a deal or a law, may appears to be an unsounded and tasteless one.

Furthermore, books enable the study of priceless knowledge of previous ages when our ancestors did not poses a television. If one neglects books, and thus other types printed documents, he or she would probably overlook the valuable ideas, inventions, and literatures in the past. And when this neglect comes to a society, it is likely to cause an disruption in history, and even worse, a feeling of splitting from traditional culture.

In conclusion, without television, our society will face the danger of losing objective and warranted evidences for history; though, without books, a split of history and culture is confronted before us. Therefore, to be more efficient in preserving and gaining information or knowledge, the modern society require a balance where there are both of television and books, and both of them cooperate with each other well.

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