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podcast “Human Spectacle 2015”, This American Life takes their listeners into the lives of two individuals who believe or are unaware that all eyes are on them. The host and executive producer, Ira Glass, incorporates clips of either an interview or television, different voices, and mood music into this episode. Through the use of these elements, Ira Glass creates a setting of disbelief and suspense that invokes an exciting element to a non-fictional piece. The prologue of this podcast is…

Compare and Contrast Sitcom- Essay Throughout the decades we as viewers witnessed various family TV sitcoms evolve as generation’s change, with many managing to maintain several of the same family core values. I strongly feel that The Brady Bunch, which debuted in the 1960’s and Full House debuting in the 1990’s best illustrate a significant gap between two generations of families that share similarities amongst family values despite their difference in family structure and roles. Both sitcoms…

Whoever thought that a television show, about six dirty kids in the slums of Chicago, living with a drunk father would make me a better person. First off, I did not live in the slums of a major city. I lived in a nice town, with a lot of nice people. I also did not have an alcoholic for a father, so me connecting to the show did not seem likely. That is until, I got a closer look into the problems and flaws of all the Gallagher children. They made me happy, they made me cry, they made me laugh…

families of rich people, the media today is available to everyone. Gitlin expresses that people have become desensitized to society and from their own feelings because of today’s media outlets. In today’s world, people are overwhelmed with pictures, television commercials, and billboards. As the world…

Today, television is an incredibly large part of basic American culture, with many people’s lives revolving completely around the little screens, or sometimes large, that dominate nearly every single living room in the modern family’s home. But, in the late 1940s, when TV was first introduced, this wasn’t the case. Television has always been on a rollercoaster between fads, and new technologies introduced throughout the decades. But one of the overall most influential decades for the television…

In the late 20th and early 21st centuries television and movies have been controlled by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) everything we view is regulated in some way by the government. We had acts enforced, rules established and other types of regulations. The FCC is like the police for broadcasting it can fine broadcasters for violating anything that airs on television. The FCC has done this many times before for example an article from CNN.com posted in June, 2012 by Bill Mears…

America is not the Greatest Country is the first episode of HBO’s new television series The Newsroom. A news anchor, Will McAvoy, is seated between a strong liberalist, Susan, and a conservative, Lewis, on a journalism panel. When asked to describe why America is the greatest country from a student in the audience the anchor envisions someone in the audience using cue cards telling him, “It isn’t.” This persuades him to give his true opinion, and the anchor continues with a speech about why he…

Introduction In the book Fahrenheit 451 there are plenty of instances where characters expres when bealing they are happy but they actually unaware that they simply are distracted. Body Paraght 1 One of the characters that gets distracted would be Mildred.Her house is known for TV being all over the walls.She stays aching TV all day as a distraction of facing the real world. Even the women around her want to wach TV all the time.Mildred likes having friends over ut all they really do is whach…

When you turn on the television today what do we see? We see war, Famine, and chaos in the world that is shared by almost 7 billion people. We hear cries of warriors, of victims, and of those who struggle to make a place for themselves in the world. We hear slandering whether it be politically, or religiously. In the media today one of the most slandered of religions in the world is Islam. Since the events of 9/11 the media constantly reinstates Islam as hateful, evil, dangerous religion . When…

the human race. He takes a strong stance against education on television, and repeatedly states that he thinks that the television is good only for pure entertainment. Postman is a supporter of print and speech as the main sources of education, and not mainstream print or speech either. He wants well-structured and versed pieces of literature to be presented in the news and in magazines. Basically, education should not be on television and should be kept less fun and more structured. Now, it has…