Does TV influence us? Many says it does and the article written by Robert C Allen entitled "Audience Oriented and Television" talks about how television in general influences american culture. The idea that without television much of our culture and everyday life would change. Many idea's that people have about certain area's or people from certain cities come from what they have seen on TV. Example's can come from such shows such as Jersey Shore, Buck Wild and The Real Housewives series that once these shows were publicly broadcast; people who see these shows then are influenced to thinking those area's are as the appear on the shows. This was originally prominent for the Jersey Shore when unknowing viewers of the series than pictured the shore as a bunch of partying animals. Now I am not saying everyone thought that, but some of the viewers definitely had that mindset about the series and area in general.
When speaking in other matters of how television has influenced and made its way into culture the catch-phrase "D'oh" by popular cartoon character Homer Simpson has moved its way into everyday culture. Now you might think "I have never used D'oh in regular conversation" and many do not but what many might not know that the world renounced dictionary "Oxford Dictionary" has added the catchphrase to every copy published. "D'oh" is now defined as "Expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish," according to the new entry in the dictionary. Chief editor of the Oxford Dictionary, John Simpson says that they look around the world for something new and significant before adding it to the dictionary. Other slang words such as "Phat" have been added to the dictionary as well in recent years. So what do you think about all of this? Should terms such as troll, turn up and chillin be added to dictionaries as well, or is this just television eating its way to much into our culture?
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