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Television (TV) is an inescapable part of modern culture. We depend on TV for information, knowledge, news and entertainment. It can be argued that TV has become an inseparable part of humans’ daily routine. With the recent explosion in satellite and digital specialty channels, it makes it even harder for TV to be separated from our lives as we now have access to a plethora of TV programmes which will enhance our lives in terms of entertaining us, informing us about up-to-date news and even learning more about the world we are living in. Yet, many people are very concerned with the negative influence of TV on us, especially our younger generation, due to the current trend of TV programmes which portray violence, sex and beauty as the norm we should embrace in our lives. These negative influences of TV have little value and hence do not contribute much to our lives. However, not all the TV programmes are of bad influence to our society. There are in fact a huge amount of TV......

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