Television

A Slow Process, A Fast Effect

We all know by now that television had took over most of the other mediums during its time, but what the shock to me was during our discussion in class was the time it took for the television invention overall to become a major outlet for the United States. When first discussing about the whole situation that was happening along with another medium radio, it was the most bizarre thing I ever heard of! Compared to what the radio was at the time, it wasn’t much at all to what you would expect today. Now that it comes to mind, it created such an impact than it originally intended to. The things that TV did created more of a negative effect rather than a positive effect.

It kept people inside from social interests (outside), which could’ve led to a down toll to things like social services such as churches if they were able to watch it on TV instead. It then could also influence people on their spending habits and their decisions to what trends they would go toward seeing it on television. Seeing it on TV made it a delusion to what they would consider as real vice versa to seeing something in real life and saying it wasn’t real because of the fact it wasn’t seen on television. Finally, it had corrupted our politics systems. Really now-a-days, in order to get elected, you have be able to show all of these advertisements which require a lot of money. Lower and middle classes can’t go toward elections without that much needed money so it just depended on those who had rich friends or those who were already rich themselves. Overall, it was able to control how we did things in today’s society rather than almost 100 years ago. Although shocking at first, it has finally become something that we now see as well..normal!