In 1835, Samuel Morse sent an electrical signal over wires. By starting and stopping the signal, the electricity arrived at its goal in a pattern of short and long signals. In 1878, in England, a scientist named William Crookes designed a glass tube that glowed when an electric current was passed through it. In 1924, a Scotsman named John Logie Barid, broadcasted the first television picture. It was blurred and flickering image of a Maltese cross, but it was definitely a picture. Experimental television stations began broadcasting occasional programs throughout the 1920s and the 1930s. However, there were still many problems transmitting a clear picture. The picture sometimes flickered and began to roll. There also was a second picture of whatever was being transmitted appeared just

In summary, the medium of television can be a visual tool for growth and tolerance within our society or an unhealthy and mindless waste of our generation's time.

All this adds up to more than simple entertainment. Since American families spend more rime watching television than doing any other single activity except sleeping, working, or going to school, we are, in terms of time, paying more attention to video heroes than to our families and friends. Women, who make up less than a third of the television population, tend to be unemployed and either dependent of a man or without any visible means of support, although recently there has been an increase in women who manage to be both professionals and motherly housewives. According to a survey in 1974,over 57 percent of men who watch television were employed in upper management positions. Only 28 percent of women had such jobs. On March 30,1981, John Hinckley fulfilled his fantasy quickly and violently, and people wonder how much of his insanity was absorbed from a television set. During prime time, a violent incident occurs five times every hour, and on Saturday mornings, it flares to eighteen times per hour. Seventeen percent of all television characters are law enforcers, and 60 percent of all crime victims are murdered. All this adds up to more violence in a day of television the fight is usually between a hero and a criminal or a victim and a criminal. When magnum type hero or the S.W.A.T. team resort to violence, as they inevitably do, it is clear who is wrong and who is right; that the right have good reasons to figh

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