The Growth of Television

... Although initially considered a luxury, television spread rapidly around the world. Through government control, it fosters education, development, and propaganda. Through commercial control, it creates entertainment, public opinion, and new cultural values. That said we emerge into an unknown where we need to remember that the media does not determine what we think; but it does determine what we think about.1 Nevertheless is that enough to influence our values or do we form our own opinions about what we see. The most memorable thing I have ever seen on TV was September 11, 2001. That will probably be the most memorable thing I will ever see as will anyone in the last century, maybe even more memorable than seeing the moon walk or JFK's assassination. This image and any others you remember are dramatic, television overwhelms us with significance via our observances. Had we never saw the Twin Towers demise right

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