The CSI Effect By Richard Willing

In the essay, The CSI Effect by Richard Willing, he explains how television shows have and are affecting todays people and society. One show in particular he mentions is the CBS crime-scene/drama series CSI (Crime Scene Investigation). Willing says that shows like CSI raises jurors’ expectations in courthouses. Some lawyers have said that CSI and related shows have jurors relying too heavily on scientific findings and are not willing to accept those findings without taking into consideration that it was compromised by varying errors. Jurors have learned a lot about DNA tests from these programs, but not taught about the right time to use one in court. This “CSI Effect” is felt beyond the courtroom as well. Some of the science is state-of-the-art

on crime shows but most of it is far-fetched. Despite a difficult profession, these shows seem to have students wanting to study and major in forensic studies. Not only these crime shows have affected people and society, but one other show thats impacted the television viewers of the country is the American sitcom, Roseanne. Roseanne Barr and her sitcom proved that a mother can provide so much more to a household than just keeping the house clean and having dinner made. She proved that a mother can handle working and keeping everything in check at home, managing her own independent business, and being a single mother despite the amount of kids.
Aired in the late 1980’s, the television sitcom had many feminist characteristics. Roseanne Barr played a mother in a working-class, female-dominated household. She was a mother of three and married to a working man. In the show she seemed to have dominant presence whenever the kids were in need but yet their father had the figure of authority in the family. For example