Teachers' participation on Television. The lecture and the reading passage discuss the benefits and disadvantages for different sectors of society when a professor appears on Tv. Basically the passage state that all people is benefit with this participation, and the lecture oppose that ideas. first the passage states that a professor gets better general reputation appearing on television because he can reach another public, different from the academic society, on the other hand, in the lecture the professor explain that this is not true at all, because oftenly a teacher who does that appearances get a bad reputation among academic researchers, and is labeled as a not serious researcher, so in this way he will probably become exclude from important academic meetings. Another idea of the passage is that a university will receive better reputation from this participation of its professors, but the lecture states that a teacher that has this constant participation on television will have less time for research or for student attention. Finally the passage talks about the public in general, and states that this community gets benefit from appearance of professors in Tv because in this way, they, the community, will have another point of view with better background or knowledge. About this idea the lecture states that the network ,responsible for the transmission of the program, don't care to much about the information, and presented in a similar way that its traditional content. Therefore the information given isn’t especial.