American Television Comedies It has been a long day. You are exhausted and arrive home after spending several hours at work or school. You decide to watch television and you try to find a funny show‚ anything that can make you laugh and make your day better. Choosing between several types of comedy shows is hard because there are innumerable reasons to watch one type or another. A television comedy can sometimes be your friend‚ your psychologist‚ your teacher‚ your passion and/or your hobby. There
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Television should be prohibit to children Television as a media tool is popular around the world. With its popularity across all age groups comes the question of whether or not children should be prohibited from watching television. I believe that children should not be allowed to watch television for extended periods of time because it has many negative side effects. I will explain the three major negative effects—that is bad for children’s health like causing obesity‚ myopia and waste time in
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TV Violence: Friend or Enemy? Television violence is a contributing factor to aggressive behavior in children. Recently focus has been placed on this issue‚ since the majority of violence occurs during prime time and in cartoons. "It’s not watching that’s bad for kids‚ it’s what they watch and how much." (Seplow 2) Parents must accept television into their home and explain the violence that is occurring. TV and TV violence are not new‚ we have been hearing about TV’s affects on children for quite
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“The emergence of television as a mass medium of communication was much more important in improving leisure opportunities for ordinary people. Than were any other 20th century developments in the media how far do you agree with this judgement as applied to the growth of leisure opportunities in Britain during the course of the 20th century as a whole?” Since the beginning of the twentieth century and before the media has been a principle tenant of British culture‚ the leisure time and expendable
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The Ironic Satire of Reality Television When you think about the content and fibre of reality television there’s really not much there. Many people feel that reality television is the best production to come from ABC‚ NBC and all the corporate conglomerates trying to make easy money. That’s exactly what they are doing. Selling easily produced television to easily minded recipients. The first problem with reality TV is that it isn’t even reality. As soon as a camera is placed in front of someone
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Television viewing is a regular part of American daily life. Many Americans‚ especially children ages 8 to 18 watch television more than 44.5 hours a week (Espejo). Approximately 38 hours of these is spent watching commercial media (Rowe and Ruskin 28-35). This allows children to be manipulated by companies‚ especially since "Most children under age 6 cannot distinguish between programming and advertising and children under age 8 do not understand the persuasive intent of advertising." This can
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The Censorship of Violence in Television Media My topic is based on research in the United States regarding television violence and its impact on juvenile crime. Since the beginning of television broadcasts there have been investigations regarding television violence and its effects on juvenile who watch it. In the early 1950s the United States Senate Judiciary Committee‚ Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency held a series of Congressional hearings to address juvenile crime. Because
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* You are the news director of a local television station. The city council has just voted to close city parks 3 days a week to save money. Meanwhile‚ a major celebrity has died. The park story has greater effect on your viewers‚ but the celebrity death will get bigger ratings? Which do you make your lead story and why? For some unknown reason‚ news has become more than a center of information. It has become the platform of entertainment. Ratings have increased when the news includes celebrity highlights
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The advent of television and television shows may have come long after film‚ but it enhanced film production almost instantly. Television naturally derived from early film since each uses basically the same medium: the motion picture camera. Since film had already set a base in the industry and mastered the new techniques and technology of cinematography‚ television had the opportunity to learn from film?s mistakes and advance itself quickly. For this reason‚ television evolved very rapidly and was
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decoded messages from the sinking ship from his office in New York (Wells 36). The Titanic broadcast was groundbreaking‚ because it showed and economically profitable way by which radio could be used as a medium of mass communication for ordinary families (Wells 36). By 1930 transmitters were popping up in cities around the nation. A record 30 million households had a set‚ and the one set per household was becoming a reality (Wells 42). The power of radio was not really noticed until a monumental
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