Peer Review: As The Era Of Pop Culture

aGroup 4 Peer Review Essay 2

As the era of pop culture continues to grow and develop, the argument amongst society continues to question how reliable new media is to human intelligence. While younger generations feel pop culture is an area to develop awareness and other mental facilities, most of the older generations look at it as disruptive path that makes our minds dense. Many people assumed that only reading can help develop that educated, well-rounded individual that criticizes society from an impartial perspective. However, our society no longer develops only such individuals anymore. In reality, pop culture is what allows people to escape the world, and actually see things in a different light.

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Most of the shows that they say shouldn’t be on television are the ones that actually talk about serious topics behind their actual show. Some examples of these type of shows can be The Colbert Report or The Daily Show. Shows like these give off a comedic style and personality that extends attention and knowledge to people who normally wouldn't be interested in hard news. This type of news is preferred for people because they gain more awareness out of it and also look up more information on it once they finish watching the show. Personally, hard news makes me tired and dull, which can cause me to direct my attention to other things and miss the information that’s being given. In The Good, the Bad, and The Daily Show, Jason Zinser states that, “The jokes and skits are based on, and peppered with, real news items and real stories” (Zinser 366). He argues that there daily audience, 1.4 million people, causes dilution. This means that people's perspectives on reality are coming strictly from a form of entertainment. Honestly that isn’t the case from my perspective. I believe that people that watch news entertainment, but then follow up on the information that was on the show. Not only that, but television shows and video games give a more interesting vibe and show their differences from books and hard news. Tom Bissell makes this point clear in

Many people assume that the world would just better without shows that don’t have a positive impact or provide education to society. One of the major television shows that has been at the center of this controversy would Family Guy. Since its debut in 1999, Family Guy has experience much controversy and criticism from all over the world. Some of it cause cancellation of the show for a point of time. But as the show returned and continued its limits to inappropriateness on network television, the show began to gain a lot of popularity and fame. Antonia Peacocke became one of those unlikely fans as she talked about it in Family Guy and Freud. She clearly pointed out that at a time she didn’t enjoy the show because it was too offensive. However, over time she began to grow on it as its popularity grew. “Users of the well-respected Internet Movie Database rate the show 8.8 out of 10. The box-set DVDs were the best-selling television DVDs of 2003 in the United States (Moloney)” (Peacocke 303). Even after the issues this show has come across it continues to do well. Why you ask? For those who don’t watch the show, easily claim that the show enjoys making controversial humor just for the heck of it. Viewers of the show, on the other hand, see the Family Guy intelligently ridicules the aspects of American culture. “Brian and Stewie demonstrate insightfully and comically how Americans