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Goethegymnasium Kassel

2014

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English Essay

Are Tv casting shows harmful to our society?


I bet all of us knows at least one casting show broadcasted on TV.


Casting shows have become an integral part of the culture and daily life of teenagers and young adults. Thousands queue-up as candidates to show, or rather in the hope to be elected to show their talents. Although one can shrug it off as entertainment, it has, in my opinion, a negative affect on both candidates and viewers.


Although the negative aspects prevails do the TV casting shows offer successful competitors an open door into the Fashion or music industry.

It has lowered the threshold to become recognized and known to a broad audience. In the past a talented musician would have to tour through bars and different clubs to get attention and very often it was more a matter of luck than talent to get 'discovered' . The casting shows offers a platform where the candidates can reach an audience of millions in less than five minutes.


In the fashion industry the pattern was similar, pretty young girls were competing in so called 'Miss contests' or were discovered on the streets by coincidence by talent scouts. Now the same applies, in a TV casting show you will be seen by millions in a split of a second.



The constant presence in the media is creating a tremendous pressure on the candidates and the viewers are dying for a scandal, sign of weakness or better a mental breakdown. The voyeurism of the audience is beyond belief and as much as the winners are admired the looser are loathed.


The TV casting shows have created a unreal image of become a prominent person. Now a days it does not matter what you do and how you do it as along the end result is that you become prominent and appear on TV even if it is five minutes failure of fame. It is shocking to hear and to see interviews of teenagers and young adults being ask what their future should be like – and their answer is I do not care as long as I am a prominent person.


This is clearly something which is being hyped through the casting shows on TV.






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