Miller's How To Be Stupid: The Lessons Of Channel One

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Everyday people receive new information in all kinds of ways, however the information given is not always accurate. Most of the inaccurate information people receive comes from the media; whether it be from the television, newspapers or magazines, commercials and several others. This information people get tells them what to think and believe which then influences their decision making. Both Mark Crispin Miller and Karen Sternheimer explain to their readers how they acquire false knowledge. In Miller’s How to be Stupid: The Lessons of Channel One, he says people get information and knowledge from watching television. Channel One is news which prepares the audience for something better to follow. It “leaves the mind with nothing but some evanescent numbers, a helpless sense of general disaster… and an overwhelming vague anxiety” (Miller 142). Miller says this to tell readers that the news is presented to scare people and after it is shown, it is supposed to leave the audience with a sense of sadness that way what is to follow will immediately lift their attitude back up. The news is not the main focus of Channel One, it is the advertisements that follow. …show more content…

The news is almost always involving negative stories and information about what is going on in the world and it is presented to us in such a quick way that most people will not have the time to process the information that is being given. The advertisements are the same way in the sense that they are presented in an even quicker way than the news so the viewers have almost no time to process every detail in the commercial. However, advertisements are still effective because they still provide enough information so that viewers will want to get what they see in the

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