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    The document discusses two articles about the influence of television on viewers' lives. Rothwell's 2019 article states that Americans spend more leisure time watching TV than any other activity except sleeping and working, and that the content and quality of shows can shape people's thinking, preferences, and cognition. Gutierrez's 2020 article discusses how over 90% of Filipinos depended on ABS-CBN network in their daily lives until it was shut down by President Duterte, leaving viewers feeling something is missing as they cannot easily adjust to a new network's culture and lifestyle.

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    The document discusses two articles about the influence of television on viewers' lives. Rothwell's 2019 article states that Americans spend more leisure time watching TV than any other activity except sleeping and working, and that the content and quality of shows can shape people's thinking, preferences, and cognition. Gutierrez's 2020 article discusses how over 90% of Filipinos depended on ABS-CBN network in their daily lives until it was shut down by President Duterte, leaving viewers feeling something is missing as they cannot easily adjust to a new network's culture and lifestyle.

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    The document discusses two articles about the influence of television on viewers' lives. Rothwell's 2019 article states that Americans spend more leisure time watching TV than any other activity except sleeping and working, and that the content and quality of shows can shape people's thinking, preferences, and cognition. Gutierrez's 2020 article discusses how over 90% of Filipinos depended on ABS-CBN network in their daily lives until it was shut down by President Duterte, leaving viewers feeling something is missing as they cannot easily adjust to a new network's culture and lifestyle.

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    According to Rothwell (2019), Americans are more likely to spend their leisure

    time watching television than engage in other activity, aside from sleeping and working.

    Rothwell also stated that on the newest social science research, it shows that the

    quality of shows and television networks can influence us in important ways in which it

    shapes our thinking and political preferences and even affects our cognitive ability and

    day-to-day basis. He also added the latest evidences suggest that there can be

    negative consequences on the individuals abundant watching especially when shows

    are more on entertainment. Regarding to Rothwell, “you are what you watch” as

    statistics have shown that the avid viewers of specific television networks in the United

    States of America are having these lifestyle which are being depended on what they

    watch over television networks. These specific television networks have been partially

    and fully affected and influenced how people (middle and high income earners) act on

    every day basis from the clothes they wear, the food they eat, and even the places they

    are going. These was because of the television shows and networks these individuals

    are watching and for being an avid viewers, they have already adapted the culture being

    shown on these TV networks.

    Rothwell, J. (2019). You are what you watch? The social effects of TV. New York

    Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/upshot/social-effects-television.html
    Gutierrez (2020) on his article stated that according to Repalde, an avid Filipino

    viewer of ABS-CBN television network, it is the most influential network in the

    Philippines. However, on May 5, 2020, even though there is a Covid-19 pandemic in the

    country, Ms. Repalde’s television went dark as President Rodrigo Duterte have

    effectively and entirely shut down the network broadcasting giant. In addition to this, it is

    not just Repalde who have depended their everyday life in the network but also more

    than 90 percent of Filipinos have spent their lives especially their free time watching

    ABS-CBN network. According to these avid network viewers, now that the network have

    been totally shut down, they don’t know what’s happening in the country especially in

    this time of pandemic where communication and information is a must and badly

    needed. Moreover, these avid network viewers have stated that not just the news have

    been deprived to them because they have been depended on the network on their

    everyday life. With that, as the network have been totally shut down, their life have been

    missing something, they are feeling of something incomplete inside them. The new

    culture and lifestyle of other network (GMA) is not easy to cope with that so easily,

    Repalde added.

    Gutierrez, J. (2020). Duterte’s shutdown of TV network leaves void amid coronavirus

    crisis. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/world/asia/duterte-

    philippines-tv-network-ABS-CBN.html

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