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- 161: TV Trash?
- ... be defined by daytime TV? How is our culture defined? I will be looking at two essays with two different point of views on our culture. In “Announcing a Public Campaign Against Select Day-Time Television Talk Shows” William Bennett states that all day-time TV is to blame for our “cultural rot”. Bennett goes on to state that talk shows are nothing but trash and a big waist of time ... if you can’t see it, it won’t happen. He comes form the past on his point of view with a “shhh” don’t tell attitude. This is why Bennett wants to abolish daytime television altogether. Bennett claims that daytime TV is the problem in our society today. Children are watching and learning the immoral truths of today’s society. But ask yourself where are those children’s parents? Bennett ... to eliminate the talk shows so then our culture can be cleansed, but are the talk shows to blame for our so-called culture rot. Shouldn’t we look to point the finger at other television shows? Bennett would disagree, he states that “the worst of television is the day-time television talk shows” (29). His rightwing, conservative attitude would say that we should ban all daytime talk shows to ...
- 162: Doing It Publicly
- By: Anonymous With talk shows ruling day-time television, people are left with little choice but to watch this humiliating form of entertainment. Turn the television on in the afternoon and you will find a large variety of talk shows to choose from. "Maybe we have become a nation addicted to hearing our neighbors' seamy personal problems”.Personally, I feel it ... both the lack of choice and the attraction to other peoples problems. Many of the topics on talk shows are degrading to our society. If person came to America for the first time and watched television, they would probably see a talk show. The model a talk show would give of American society is horrifying. For example, a common talk show topic is teens having multiple sex partners at young ...
- 163: Natural Born Killers
- ... would throw on a robe over my pajamas and run down stairs with my brother to the living room and sit myself in the middle of the couch, which was directly in front of our television. To me the best part of the week was watching the morning cartoons with the family while eating breakfast. We always enjoyed good laughs watching the Coyote try to catch the Roadrunner, and I was ... GI.Joe’. The habitual watching of cartoons eventually transformed as I reached my teen years. Instead of cartoons I watched music videos and movies. All of my life I have been growing up with the television, watching and learning from the characters and images on the screen. I realize now that the media greatly effects our lives and the lives of today’s youth, often in ways that we do not ... Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis), who go on a shooting spree throughout the country. The couple is a product of all ‘bad’ influences of society. Mallory was a child that watched too much television when she was young and grew up in an abusive family, she sees her life via a television sitcom as an excape from her disturbed life. Her family life is shown to the audience ...
- 164: The Power of Persuasion
- The Power of Persuasion Through the power of persuasion and other carefully calculated marketing techniques the media is able to dictate the products consumers purchase. The media airs commercials throughout television shows, radio shows, and even has made its way into the internet by creating banners which advertise products through links. With the increase of availability to televisions, radios and even the internet the media can ... to advertise towards. There are many different tactics the media takes to make a product appealing to consumers. The different ways depend on which form the commercial will be seen in. Product advertisements aired on television are designed to stimulate two primary senses, site and sound, as opposed to a radio ad that focuses on just sound. With the internet and billboards just to the eyes. In television commercials numerous marketing techniques are utilized to create visual and sound appeal to consumers. The benefit of television advertising is the combination of site and sound, being able to see that beautiful woman drink ...
- 165: Trapped Inside the TV
- ... because of the shift in the medium? Postman argues that our culture is reshaped by its dominant medium of cultural conversation, and that the difference between the culture of a print based society verses a television based society effects intellectual tendencies and public discourse of all the people in the respective communities. The print based societies can date as far back as the conversations that took place as cave paintings or ... way, did it help join a country, or fragment its most valuable possession- information? The telegraph was soon followed by the invention of the photograph. This was the second stage in the transformation into a television-based society. This incredible invention allows for the world to be presented as an object, nothing more and nothing less. The picture became worth a thousand words; they are proof that things are real. But can they replace the written word? Americans were soon provided with another alternative for gaining information. This new technology was none other than the television. TV provides an alternative way to get the latest news, maybe even quicker than through reading about it in the newspaper. This new form of information has been criticized. Does TV allow for the ...
- 166: ... mother compares the daughter to other children, which makes the daughter feel worthless. The mother talks about a three-year-old who knows the capital of all the states. She forces the daughter to watch television shows featuring talented youngsters. She implies her daughter is not as good as the other children. In "Girl", the girl is given two choices – be a girl or be a slut. Essentially, she is being ...
- 167: Virtual Reality Technology and Society
- ... include video monitors and LCD goggles. Currently, today's computers, including those not used in virtual reality, use video monitors to convey visual information to their users. These monitors are technologically no different from the television and rely upon the same basic components of a cathode ray tube and the associated electronic circuitry to display an image. The only difference is that a video monitor does not contain a television tuner and instead receives it's input from a computer that is connected to it. The type of video output device that is used primarily for virtual reality are liquid crystal display goggles, referred to ... portrayed in this movie are a far cry from current VR technology, the movie does make a very good point: The most exciting work being done in VR is entertainment related. Instead of simply watching television or guiding a tiny animated figure through a computer game, you can become part of the action--fighting opponents as a giant mechanized robot, crashing a car in demolition derby, exploring in a world ...
- 168: ... knack for making these old tales come to life. When you read Hamlet, or any other Shakespearean play, the first thing to remember is that the words are poetry. Shakespeare's audience had no movies, television, radio, or recorded music. What brought entertainment into their lives was live music, and they liked to hear words treated as a kind of music. They enjoyed plays with quick, lively dialogue and jingling wordplay ...
- 169: Paper About New Product, Bount
- ... to advertise using mediums that will reach our target market with the greatest reach, but more importantly with the highest frequency. According to Simmons Market Research, it will be to our advantage to use public television stations, along with cable television stations for advertising with our product with the greatest reach to the target market. This decision was made to advertise on the public stations of NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox; while at the same time ... booths, in even more efforts to gain trail use from all potential consumers. The Advertising program that Proctor & Gamble will implement for Bounty Toilet Paper will be extensive, covering many different mediums, as noted earlier. Television, magazines, newspapers, and radio will all be used in conjunction to gain the highest reach and greatest frequency of potential consumers. P&G will broadcast commercials on various network stations, such as NBC, ABC, ...
- 170: The Print Media Is Less Effective Than Other Media Types
- ... of work involved to get the scoop, and the amount of time it takes each to broadcast the news. The first reason, the amount of people that the news reaches, is probably the biggest factor. Television is watched by most of the population whereas, the amount of people that receive a newspaper, or other source of obtaining news information, such as NEWSWEEK, is considerably less. Also, television offers a variety of channels and programs, which means a more complete story, as opposed to a newspaper which might only offer one view. Another reason that television is preferred to print is because of the amount of work involved. The newspaper, or a magazine, is something that you have to go out and get, or even worse, wait for. News is ...
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