【答案解析】There is no doubt that watching television and movies can affect the way that people think and behave. Moreover, it seems that people are spending more and more their spare time watching some sort of visual entertainment, such as television programs, videotape or a DVD. Therefore, the effects of visual media cannot be neglected.
One obvious effect of these media is that watching them induces people to buy certain products. Television advertising is widespread and, nowadays, even movie theaters present advertisements. Another way that TV and the movies have influence on people is that they give people either a broader view of the world or a distorted one, depending on what type of program they watch. By watching news and educational program can learn many new things while those who watch primarily entertainment shows may come to believe that most people in the world possess great wealth and good looks. In this way it may make people become dissatisfied with their own lives.
Another important effect of those visual media is that perhaps the most susceptible viewers are children, who may be unable to tell fact from fiction and may try to imitate acts that they see on TV or in the movies. Eventually they may become violent or inhabited and become the victims of those visual media.
With the ever-increasing popularity of visual media entertainment, the whole society must pay attention to these effects. Television and movies, while entertaining and informative, cannot take the place of real life experience.