Impact Of Television On The Western Europe

Propaganda is about power and persuasion, and is used for many reasons by the government. This essay will explore the overt means by which the government uses systematic propagation to control the citizens of the society and the subtle ways in which information, independent thought, and their freedoms are restricted through radio and television.

Specifically, the media played a crucial role in shaping ideologies. This was during the interwar period in 1929, the Soviet Union created Radio Moscow to spread Communist ideology throughout the European continent. In response by the West following the Second World War in 1949, Radio Free Europe was created to counter the Communist radio stationed and spread anti-communist propaganda into the Soviet Union. Verbal Propaganda not only played an important role on radio but as well television. When television started to become prominent in households, both the

Entertainment in the twentieth century is everyone sitting down in front of the television to

The first television that introduced to Australia was in 1956, and it was the primary source of entertainment. The television had a major impact on the lifestyles of Australians. After using the television, all Australians spent more time staying at home and entertain themselves rather than going out to the cinema or other venues. Television's effects were not only of activity associated with interests, but in terms also of the intensity or strength of the viewer's feeling of interest in different things. The television was one of the most popular products that helped make professional and college sports big businesses. However, it provided comedy and dramatic shows to a vast audience that might not otherwise have had access to them. Television

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.

In the 1950's, television, having been introduced to political coverage as a new medium, surpassed the dominance of newspaper and radio media as the primary public source of information regarding politics by 1962. Political processes and events of various measures were all soon televised in recognition of overwhelmingly positive public feedback. By the 1970's, live coverage of major political events were as common as seeing grass on the ground.

The surrounding environment easily and biologically affects human beings. Media is one of the aspects that people can easily approach. Today the media is so powerful that the development of communities depends on the influence of media to society. Now, the social issue, “can government control the media?” is brought up in our society. Since the society will casually follow the government, which will lead to the greater unity and stability, some people agree with the idea. However, the government should not control over the media. By referring to predications made by George Orwell in ‘1984’ and Aldous Huxley in ‘Brave New World’, changing advertisement to propaganda and media supporting the government are the most rapid methods to become a communist

In our current day and age, both news and media play an important role in society. One major role of media is to spread news and information to the public for educational and informative purposes. Commonly, individuals form beliefs and opinions on their learned information. With the major role media plays, it is easy to gain a distorted sense of reality if one is not careful with distinguishing truth from falsehood. In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the government, known as the Party, controls all of society through the use of news and media by the continuous spread of false information.

In 1926 John Logie Baird transmitted his first image with his new mechanical television. As the 4”x2” image of his business partner illuminated his face, Baird was completely unaware of the influence this new medium would have on the opinions and attitudes of the people of the world. Television represented a new opportunity to bring not only audio like radio but to place an image in every home. Along with the work of many other inventors television was soon to become a viable medium of entertainment and news but it did face many setbacks. At first television was a novelty, completely overshadowed by the established medium of radio. Before World War II very few homes contained a television and broadcasters mostly aired 15 minute segments and were limited in technology. Then on September 1, 1939 Hitler and Germany invaded Poland and the world plunged into World War II. The FCC issued a ban on the construction of television equipment causing the growth of television to stagnate. At the end of the war economic prosperity and a rising middle class opened the door for a new rise in the purchase of goods. One such good was the television. In 1947 only a few thousand homes owned a television. By 1950 six million homes contained a television, and in 1960 around 60 million homes contained a television. During this period a new war was being waged: the Cold War. In this battle between United States and the Soviet Union ideals propaganda was the main way to grow support for their cause

Television is one of the most popular ways to consume media. However, television wasn’t always the way it is today. Many changes took place in the television industry during the 1980s. Some of the important changes that took place in the 1980s were the new types of programming, the increase in the popularity of cable television, and new technology that was invented such as the remote control. Television had a huge effect on society through the way if affected the ways children could be educated and what people watched. It impacted technology through changes in how people watched television and what people could record and watch on television. It also had an enormous effect on the economy through changes in competition in the television industry and how musicians and their music could be made popular. Television in America in the 1980s affected society, technology, and the economy.

The Vietnam was a revolutionary event in the history of the media’s role in war, since it was the first time where the media was allowed to show the American citizens the reality of foreign wars. With the invention and rapidly gaining popularity of the television set at the end of World War II; by 1964, more than half of Americans “got most of their news” from TV, meaning that people were able to in some way become part of the terrible experiences of the soldiers in Vietnam were living. The mass media radically changed the perception and war, showing to what great extent the forms of communication altered ideals.

Previously, technological restrictions have placed the broadcasting of news and information in the sole hands of the corporate elite and governments. The general public were acquiring their knowledge of current affairs across the world mostly through print based newspapers, magazines and billboards. These mediums are intrinsically expensive to buy and run and as such, only the very richest of society could afford to use them, thereby controlling what the general public saw and understood about events throughout the world which had great affect on how those same people thought.

In the early 1940’s television was introduced and it bridged the gap in communication between the people and the government. Since then, it has played a detrimental role in United States elections since the 1960’s. According to some, television has tainted it’s real purpose. These individuals concur that televised debates are more so about image, instead of the quality of the debate. These speculators would be correct on this topic for the sole purpose that when on television appearance is appealing to the younger generations that can vote.

“A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth” – Joseph Goebbels, German Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. This is the exact words of Nazis most famous propagandist in using media as a mass weapon of propaganda and mind control. Could you imagine Germany in 1930s, without Television channel, without the Internet, without every mobile device in your palm, what channel of information will you get? Of course, newspapers, flies, images, celebrities were used as tools for propaganda purposes, designed to provoke a reaction, and ultimately, a form of control over their citizen. Nowadays, with all the advanced of technologies, information can reach everyone in every corner of the Earth, the message is delivered in the subtlest ways, without people’s conscious, has shaped everyone’s decision, or at least shape their behavior toward the decision that the orchestrator want the audience to perceive. With the booming of internet, information sharing seamlessly, we must ask ourselves, the role of media in conveying, shaping the society that we are living in. Let look at few examples of U.S propaganda machine, and later, the particular case of fish sauce in Viet Nam back in October 2016.

Over the last forty to fifty years, television has been a major topic of discussion. Specifically, many debate societal benefits to television watching. One widely accepted opinion is that watching TV makes people dumber. People have referred to it with terms like the “idiot box” and do not feel that watching TV has any benefit at all. They feel that it is a waste of time and people need to spend their hours more wisely. Others are of the opinion that TV is actually has societal benefits. From this perspective, they claim that the development of the structure of the programs now requires one to intellectually participate in watching television. Essentially, the argument is whether TV is a beneficial societal force or is it simply a