There had been much heated debate about the advantages and disadvantages of watching TV and whether or not TV was actually making us as a society smarter smart when Steven Johnson wrote his book All That's Bad Is Good: How Today's Popular Culture Actually Makes Us Smarter. The book was published in 2005 and a part of the book, Watching TV Makes You Smarter, was published by the New York Times Magazine in the same year. This only added fuel to the fire of the debate and served as a wake-up call for many readers. The debate mainly focuses on the idea that TV can make a person more or less intelligent. In this essay, Johnson openly suggests that consuming television programs makes us smarter. He tries to convince the reader of this idea of television making us smarter by appearing believable, using sound logic, and giving the impression that he is knowledgeable about the topic. All of these approaches may work on those who read and rush but don't take the time to digest the content, but for everyone else who has slowed down to think about the information it presents its logical d...
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