smoke signals to the telegram, telephone to the radio, television to the computer, people have

found many ways to entertain and communicate. Communication has brought information to

people about values, trends, and cultural norms. Whether it is oral tradition, dances, parties,

plays, or letters, communication has played a big role in keeping historical records. Television

reflects people. With television a person can chart a social history of the past 60 years with shows

such as The Ed Sullivan Show, I Love Lucy, M*A*S*H, Dick Van Dyke, and Seinfeld. One of

the most powerful instruments of social transformation this century was the television. Every

time a person turned on the set, there was another extraordinary event being presented, live.

Events in history like the civil rights struggles; the JFK shooting; the Martin Luther King Speech;

the LA riots were all beamed into houses around the nation. As entertainment and

communication evolved so did network television and the media -the medium of television.

People in Wyoming looked at the same thing as people in New York night after night, giving the

people who can fold themselves into a small box and remain in there for 8 minutes with little

expensive Ferrari than about their family, friends, and people around them.

Television suggests that violence is an acceptable mean of solving problems. Children see

Butthead it shows two guys who go around stealing others possessions, are disrespectful to

characters to cheat and be deceitful. Kids tend to perceive these actions as the right thing to do if

few problems, other then whom to go to the dance with, achieving good grades by ways that are

is on four children that go around the town beating up on each other, calling out obscenities to

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