"Television's Curse Was Its Blessing" By Virginia Heffernan, The New York Times, May 8, 2011

In this article, Virginia Heffernan discusses how the "curse" on the media may be an advantage. She uses the evidence of how television often has the bad reputation for "risking intellectual damage." I like the way that she writes here because it seems at first--despite the title of the article--that she is going to prove that television is a bad thing and that it is often surrounded by a "cloud of moral judgement" making the whole world think that the entire media is corrupt. However, in the end she makes the point that the whole "curse" was actually a blessing in disguise because people can't ignore this overall concept. Heffernan states, "Sometimes high moral judgenebt from the government is exactly what the arts need most." She alludes to other types of media, including major motion pictures, music, and books. I enjoyed her opinion on the matter of what television has done to our society and I certainly agree with the majority of her statements.