After reading Stephen King's short essay, "Reading to Write", King calls the Television a "glass teat" in other words, expressing his disdain for aspiring readers getting hooked to the TV. However, the TV can be used as source of information and a starting place where good writing can be found in many instances. For one example, the news channels like CNN or FOX can inform writers on political news with the new president and important topics for debate. This could help the type of writer such as a journalist or even give a fiction writer an idea. Yet King writes in his essay, "I'd like to suggest that turning off that endlessly quacking box is apt to improve the quality of your life as well as the quality of your writing" (224). I have to disagree, when you have hilarious comics such as Amy Schumer or Aziz Ansari, they have a strong hold in shaping a young writers' mind. It can be any type of writer as well but TV whether it is comedy, reality tv, fiction, news etc. all have something that can be learned and interpreted in their own ways. Something so much as an animated superhero show on Disney can give a writer an idea for a strong heroine in their next book.
In a Writer's Digest article I found on why television can be good for writers, a writer explains how TV has helped him, "Jim Kearney, author and former TV executive, said that the writers who have influenced him most are TV scribes such as David Milch, Steven Bochco and Matthew Weiner. (Weiner created “Mad Men,” which Kearney cited as an excellent lesson in verisimilitude.)" As explained, television has its benefits for all writers, there is much to learn when creativity is shared for all.
Source
http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/why-watching-tv-thrillerfest
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