10/9 Blogosphere

After reading both, "Watching TV Makes You Smarter," by Steven Johnson and "Thinking Outside the Idiot Box," by Dana Stevens, I must take Stevens' side. Johnson did a poor job of trying to convince the reader thaHis arguement was only supported by a few pieces of evidence like, the graphs that show the differt watching complex TV shows like "24," actually makes you smarter by making you think. ent levels of threads going on in certain TV shows. This still does not prove that watching these more complex shows makes the watcher any smarter. His argument had very little positive effect on me because I did not know any of the TV shows he was talking about. Maybe that's just because I'm stupid since I don't watch any of the "smart" shows he talks about. Stevens' argument seems a lot more down to earth and a lot more accurate. i honestly do know see how watching TV could be much of a learning experience.