Here we go with T.V. You know this is why radio was demassified. I thought that was interesting; it was inevitable but interesting. I was invented in 1927 and I bet that's something not a lot of people know. Then color T.V. was released in 1946. This lead to more people buying and watching television. In 1948 one million television sets were in the United States. By 1959, just ten years later, there were 50 million television sets. Want to know why this is so great yet disappointing? It's because you obviously could still get news very fast rather than hearing it through the grapevine, by word of mouth. You could also see who was talking; who was reporting the news. But T.V. had kept us inside for longer periods of time rather than getting out into the world to social events. Not going to church every Sunday because it was on T.V., or not going to a concert because you could just as easily stay at home and watch it on T.V.
This makes me almost disgusted about our society today because it has changed and shaped so many aspects of culture and everyday lives of all these innocent people. Just like on the news, it's depressing to hear all this crime. It would still be happening but you wouldn't have to worry about missing the news if T.V. hadn't exploited all of its uses and took them for granted. I agree that, yes, I love T.V. as much as the next person but if we would've invented it later or never had it in the first place, how would our society be today? Can you believe the difference it probably would take?
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