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Phil873 | Tuesday, 06th October 2015, 9:49 am | I hardly ever watch TV until there is a good movie because I hate this 15 minutes advertisement after every 30 minutes. Therefore, I decided to go for radio and internet. To be honest I am only listening to the radio when eating my breakfast or lunch. But once I hear something strange, I cannot believe, I start my laptop and google the thing to be sure that the media did not lied to me. There are many ways how the media manipulates us and I…

The Ads When we watch television, there is one thing that we just cannot escape; commercials. There are all kinds of commercials. Commercials usually advertise a product of some sort. These advertisements include cars, facial products, makeup, hair products, beer, etc. People who are in “need” of such items are the intended audience. Someone who needs a car could see a commercial advertising their “Fall Sale,” which says they do not have to put anything down and could walk off the lot with a…

TV Shows Analysis: American Horror Story and the Twilight Zone Linh Hua Anderson University Televisions came to the United States during the late 1940s, but they did not officially bloom until the 1950s. They were able to dominate Americans due to their diversity of programs: variety shows, anthology shows, sitcom shows, etc. In the current time, when one mentions anthology, people would immediately think about The Twilight Zone, which runs in the late fifties and sixties, and…

Radio’s dad died a while back Coach Jones had found out from Radio’s mother. The coach also finds out that Radio’s real name is James Robert Kennedy. Radio ends up not being allowed to get on the bus with the football team to travel to the game. The last football game for the season, Radio gets to keep the game ball. Frank (coach’s “friend”) calls Radio a distraction on the sidelines during a football game and it offends the coach. The school board assumes Radio is a distraction in a classroom…

It's like a smoke in the mirror or a string that pulls us closer, and closer every time our minds tries to escape the magnitude of advertisements placed upon us. Therefore, I sat in the dark corners of my room and asked myself, are our minds ever going to find peace and tranquility to think on its own as long as these ads are embedded within us? From the very instant we open our eyes in the morning, these advertisement’s start to find their ways in our brains, “at the rate of about three…

Advertisements are everywhere. Whether they are on television, a magazine, or on the radio, there is no way that you can avoid them. They all have their audience that they aim for, who they have clearly designed the ad for, and of course they are making money off the product. This multi billion dollar business and the advertiser's study all the ways that they can attract a person’s attention. The best advertisements get people talking. In reality TV, online networking, music, and even politics,…

My media diary test shows me that my media time spending is very diverse. I classified my media usage into three categories, news & social networking, entertainment, and study. For all three type of usages, I calculated the time-use for each type and found out that I am in favor of social media most. During the testing time, I spent 115 minutes media time in day one and 160 minutes in day two. My average time spending for social media is about 135 minutes/day. It shows that I should have enough…

War of The Worlds created by Orson Wells was a radio drama that caused panic on halloween eve because of its realistic sounds.The radio drama was broadcasted on halloween eve and caused panic. The radio show war of the worlds created panic on halloween eve to listeners who did not hear the first public announcement and by the time the second public service announcement came by the listeners were already fleeing the country. The professional sound actors made it easy to belive , they acted as…

While we see media every day in our own lives, media has been there since the first colonies of America but a lot has changed since then. Media can generally be defined as a means of communication that reaches or influences a large or wide audience. Although media is something that we experience every day and most likely something we do ourselves, it has been around for a much longer time than people think. One of the first forms of media in America was the Publik Occurrence newspaper in 1690.…

Whether it’s to know your weekly weather, to stay up to date on citywide information, or to be the source of any and all information when disaster strikes, the news is where people go. The Columbia Broadcasting System, or CBS, began in 1927 and continues today as an active news television network. For years CBS has been keeping their viewers up to date on all of the information they need to know to help them get through the day. The end of every day became special because the CBS Evening News…