Blog 3

A show I like to watch is Sports Center. I watch it every night and that is basically the only show that I have time to watch. Sports Center represents American core values. The one it most represents is achievement and success. It shows highlights of professional atheletes. These atheletes have become successful in their sports. All the athelets show that activity and work has paid off. By keeping busy and focusing on their sports, they have gotten to where they are. Sports Center aslo shows efficiency. It is a one hour show, that talks about all the sports in that day. It allows people to get what they need in a short amount of time. It shows that people can improve themselves and maybe become like these atheletes. They can have progress. It sometimes talks about the salaries that the atheletes are making. This demonstrates material comfort. The atheletes are deffinately living, "The good life." It doesn't really show much individualism. But sometimes it will have a story about an athelete doing something out of the box. There also isn't much about freedom. Sometimes it talks about open trade clauses and sometimes that an athelete will retire. But it is mostly a show to cover sports. Sports Center represents conformity. Many of the people in the sports world are very alike. They are all working hard to win championships. If a single person isn't performing at a high enough level, they will be released. There isn't much humanitarianism. Everyone cares about their team. They are just trying to beat the snot out of the other team. Youthfulness is another very important part of the sports world. Almost all atheletes are young, and the anchors on Sports Center love talking about how young some of the atheletes are. Overall Sports Center is telling the viewers that they should value almost all of the core values. It shows people who have become successful, and tells the viewer why they have become successful. Many of the core values are what leads to becoming successful in America. So it only makes sence that a show that talks about successful people, would include many of the core values in their show.