The Reality Of The Television

In the early 1900’s, as films stated centering their focus on profit, large scale studios came onto the film scene. The studios that were discussed in the chapter were: Universal, United Artists, Paramount, Warner Bros, MGM, Fox, Columbia, and RKO. These studios employed some of the biggest names in the film world at the time. Many of these studios are still in business today, and have given prominent actors and directors their shot at fame. Universal was the first studio to move to the west coast. They produced popular films such as The

Deviance is a behavior, trait, belief, or other characteristic that violates a norm and causes a negative reaction (Ferris & Stein 154). The television Jane The Virgin embodies this sociological theory and is intended for an audience of young and older adults. Types of deviance that is featured is that Jane Villanueva who has hopes of being a teacher and author goes to the doctors for a routine physical examination. However, while there she accidentally gets artificially inseminated. The intended specimen was intended for a patient in the next room, the situation becomes even more shocking. In fact, the donor is Jane’s boss Rafael Solano whom she had a crush on a few years prior.

This document is a major example of yellow journalism. This piece was meant to grab the public’s attention and bring an outcome. Many Americans found out about the explosion due to this article, causing numerous to be outraged. This publishment is a major leading factor to the Spanish-American War and is greatly remembered. William Randolph Hearst met his goal with this piece, to inform the public of such a horrific

Television has been criticized as “a vast cultural wasteland”. Tv is supposed to be something that people use for fun and entertainment not a way to get away from your problems. Now with that being said this quote is trying to say that tv is useless. I think the reason that some people think that tv is useless is because of shows like SpongeBob and family guy. Sponge bob is a very popular kids show that has been around for years but doesn’t benefit the people watching it in anyway. In fact, watching a cartoon like SpongeBob can damaged the mind of many people and children with the stupidity that’s done on the show. Then you have a show like family guy where the things done can be called stupid but at the same time the things done are realistic but the only problem with a show like that is that it’s very inappropriate for kids to watch because of all the inappropriate behavior and violence that that is shown in a show like that. Another problem with tv isn’t the tv it’s the people. The shows are there to watch and to enjoy but it’s up to the person to watch it or the parent to allow their child to watch that. I don’t think that tv is a vast cultural wasteland because there are many different thins to see and watch and learn you just have to watch the right shows and use the right channels. Sometimes watching tv can even be fundamental.

In 1937 Reagan got his break as an actor and signed a seven year contract with the movie studio Warner Brothers. Over the

For example on Feburaury 22, 1897, the Jouranal Headlined an aricle with “SHERMAN FOR WAR WITH SPAIN FOR MURDERING AMERICANS.” However John Sherman the secretary of war had never expressed such an opinion. He even denied that he had ever made such an anouncement. But the story wasn’t retracted and the American reading public believed tha Sherman favored a war with Spain. Also ther was no truth in the headline “FLEETS OF THE GREAT POWERS BOMBARD THE CUBAN INSURGANTS.” But there was no way for the Americans to disprove the story.

People were scared of radicals especially Palmer. He used what was know as the Palmer Raid to seek weapons, and evidence of violent activities in businesses

1939 created into a film. It was a masterpiece that was to be one of

In his attacks on Hollywood and the Federal Theatre Project, Hearst was driven by selfish and possibly personal ulterior motives. Between the Federal Theatre Project, Hollywood, and William Randolph Hearst exists one very crucial connection, Orson Welles (Allen, Carmichael). The “Boy Wonder” entertainer, who at 21 years old directed the groundbreaking play “The Cradle Will Rock”, which criticized public figures just like Hearst. But it isn’t the production of this play that brought young Welles’ ever promising career to an abrupt halt, to this William Randolph Hearst is responsible.

CBS is responsible for the nationwide panic created by a CBS broadcast in 1938 that was narrated by Orson Welles reading his version of the novel “War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells. CBS is responsible because it broadcasted the show and if the show hadn’t been broadcasted, the panic would have never happened. “The radio play, narrated by Orson Welles, had been written and performed to sound like a real news broadcast about an invasion from Mars (“’War of the Worlds’: Behind the 1938 Radio Show Panic” 1). CBS broadcasted the story like it was a real news announcement making it sound very realistic and more believable. If CBS hadn’t made it as realistic or reminded the audience that the story was fiction more often, then the ensuing panic would

The Television is often the centerpiece of typical American house. TVs are now a representative the American dream. TVs are even used to measure finical wellbeing. Huge flat screen TVs symbolize success, while smaller TVs represent modesty. People crowd around the TV to watch the big game, to catch up on the news and keep up with pop culture. Is there something wrong with this so-called wonder device known as the Television? Marie Winn, author of book Unplugging the plug-in drug, argues this point in the chapter “The Trouble with Television” claiming that the television negatively affects families and specifically children. Marie Winn is an author and journalist who is known for her write ups on wildlife and television. The book was published in 1987 and describes eight ways in which the television is damaging. Winn makes it a point not to argue against the content of television, but rather how the television effects family relationships and is a detriment to children’s development. While I agree with some of Winn’s, overall, I disagree with her assessment of television. The points that Winn made that I disagree with include, TV allows kids to grow up less civilized, TV keeps family from doing other things, TV makes children less resourceful, TV has a negative effect on children’s school achievement and TV has a negative effect on children’s physical fitness.

One man insisted he had heard “ the president’s voice “ over the radio advising all citizens to leave the cities ,”what made this happen”. In 1938 Orson Welles made a radio drama in New Jersey and New York it scared the nation with it’s state of the art sound and well trained actors. The radio was like there TV at the time because there was no TV. A lot of people missed the beginning of the broadcast it started at 8 and people tuned at 8:12 to hear the ventriloquist and the illusion of the weather report and the hotel music thought that they were hearing the ventriloquist but they got cut off. Then as the breaking news started it seemed believable to most listeners. Most people were already scared because of the war scare then hearing martians

He did however, later go on the air to tell listeners that it was not real. He was afraid that there would be fall out over what happened and thought it may even end his career. It had the opposite impact and led to "Citizen Kane" the movie that Orson wrote and produced.

When Citizen Kane was first released in 1941 it was cinematically groundbreaking because first time director Orson Welles had taken various types of filmmaking, much of which had been used in Expressionistic German films in the 1920’s and incorporated them all into one film. Despite the fact that Welles did not create the techniques used in the film he revolutionized the way films were shot. When Welles was asked where he had gotten the confidence as a first time director to create a movie that was so different from its counterparts, Welles said, “ Ignorance, ignorance, sheer ignorance-you know they is no confidence to equal it, it is only when you know something about a profession, I think, that you are timid or careful” (Welles). This “ignorance” was important to the film as it resulted in the use of cinematography that had not been popularized yet, some examples of this are:

Television, a telecommunication medium some may not survive without. Today’s generation may refer to television as a technological norm; delusional of a world where television was non-existent. Notably, television unites the nation through local or world events, politics, education, and entertainment. Philo Farnsworth, “Father of Television,” invented the television; the electronic transmission of fixed or mobile images. Furthermore, Farnsworth’s invention influenced a new form of media. Young Farnsworth’s scientific, technological imagination as well as, competitive battle with a major-league corporation, RCA, enticed the growth of one of the most popular media mediums; television.