Essay - Television and America There Have Been Many Technological Advances Within...

Television and America

***** have been many technological advances within the past sixty years that have fundamentally influenced the way that we live in the United States. Among the most influential is the invention ***** proliferation of the telev*****ion.

***** *****re are other advances which, ***** equally important it is still the television that dominates the background noise of nearly every home. In fact ***** homes ***** more televisions than they have bathrooms. It is not unusual for television to be the single most used avenue for national and international information. "From its early position as a new medium for political coverage in ***** 1950s, television quickly supplanted radio and eventually newspapers ***** become by the early 1960s ***** major source of public information about politics."

This information includes political, social ***** popular issues ***** have helped shape the culture ***** America. ***** is through the influence of television and the media that politics of America ***** become what they are. It is through television that the civil rights movement reached so many ***** than it would have otherwise ***** it is through telev*****ion ***** to *****me degree the *****nization of foreign people has occurred.

Though, television was invented in 1927, by Philo Farnsworth, (Schatzk***** 2002) the ***** of the technology did not begin to occur until the mid 1940s and early 1950s. "The introduction of television ***** stalled while ***** nation devoted its technical might to winning the Second World War, but ***** the late ***** television swept the ***** and the world." (Schatzkin *****) It wasn't until the picture gained color in 1946 that the ********** really exploded as something every home needed. (Bellis 2003)

********** are a few striking visu*****l messages, associated with the ***** ***** really st***** out in the minds ***** most Americans.

***** the first televised presidential debates to ***** near continuous ***** ***** of congressional activities that exists today, television ***** made landmark strides towards informing the people. Though, many would argue that this has all come at a price, *****ssociated with ***** visual image sometimes being more compelling than the political message and also the sheer cost of national campaigns given the high cost ***** television advertisement.

Yet, it is ***** clear that the ***** of politics in the United states would not be what it ***** today without the political images and ********** we all get form the television.

A observers have long discussed the ***** that ***** coverage ***** ***** famous 1954 McArthur Day Parade in Chicago communicated more excitement and a greater sense of immediacy to television viewers than to those participat*****g in the live event. The ***** hear*****gs in conjunction with Joseph McCarthy's search for communist sympathizers in the early 1950s also captured the attention of ***** public. (Kaid 2003)

Who can argue ***** the ***** political event surround*****g the assassination of John F. Kennedy did not burn images into ***** minds ***** many people, a gre*****t deal of whom ***** remember exactly where they were when the