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Television In The 1950's

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How much television do you watch a day? Has it increased as you get older? In the history of not only America but the world, television is a relatively new invention. Being a part of popular culture for only around 70-80 years has not given us much time to adequately research the specific side effects TV has on people. This especially connects to the recent changing behavior of the most vulnerable group of television watchers, children. American children's television since its conception has had an effect on children across America leading to varying degrees of cognitive, developmental, and behavioral changes as compared to children not exposed to television. The 1950’s was a renaissance for television in America. Although TV in its early stages was created in the late 1920’s, it wasn’t yet affordable for the …show more content…

Author Juliet Schor highlights some specific media that surfaced in the 50’s, “In 1954, ABC aired its highly successful Mickey Mouse Club in the after-school period, and Mattel advertised on the show. By the late 1950s, the popularity of Barbie solidified a long and profitable relationship between television and toy commercials. Saturday morning programming also began at this time, and Kellogg's created its classic characters Tony the Tiger, Rice Krispies' Snap, Crackle, and Pop, and the Trix rabbit to sell cereals” (Schor 39). These brands and characters created in the 50’s are still vastly popular today and demonstrate the influence television had on the 1950’s and how vital the era was for the revolutionization of TV. As seen in the examples from the previous paragraph, lots of shows created for TV during the 50’s targeted young and adolescent audiences. Children and teens were a previously untapped market and after the economic boom WWII provided, the US experienced a baby

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Summary In the Read Aloud Handbook Chapter 9 by Jim Trelease (2006), Mr. Trelease discusses the issue of Television and Children. He starts Chapter 9 with a story about a single mother raising two young boys in the heart of Detroit, Michigan. The single mother is Sonya Carson and her youngest son is Mr. Ben Carson known today as the leading pediatric neurosurgeon and current Republican nominee for President of the United States. Mr. Trelease (2006) mentions in his article, how Mrs. Carson made her boys study, and in turn their grades improved; by the time Ben graduated from high school he was “third in his class” (p. 1).

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The Overuse of Television Kameron G Loyd BYU-Idaho  During an average week, how much television does the average child watch? Parents, educators, and concerned citizens alike would be appalled at the answer of 1,480 minutes (BLS American Time Use Survey, A.C. Nielsen Co.). They would also be revolted by the statistic that 54% of four to six year olds would rather spend time watching television instead of spending time with their fathers (BLS American Time Use Survey, A.C. Nielsen Co.). In 1984, Neil Postman saw how devastating television watching was becoming to the culture of America, and gave a speech to the literary community at the 1984 Frankfort Germany Book Fair entitled “Amusing Ourselves to Death” which deals directly with this monolithic issue. Although the speech and subsequent article, published in Et Cetra, were directed at the publishers, writers, illustrators, etc., all those who read this article can also benefit from Postman’s overarching desire to decrease the hours of mind-numbing television watching.

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Television was first invented in 1925 by John Logie Baird. Then in 1923, a mechanical television system called radiovision was introduced by Charles Jenkins and it could transmit the earliest moving silhouette images. It is undeniable to say that television became one of the most essential inventions that shaped America throughout 1920s. Up to now, it has enhanced the electronic industry and advanced in technology of the USA. In 1927, Herbert Hoover was the very first U.S. President to appear on television.

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During the 1950’s the television set was very popular and affected the American society greatly, the television informed citizens of the issues, civil rights movements and current news, political figures and events were televised and promoted and the television created a cultural adaptation between the nation’s youth culture and daily life. In the 1950’s, households that owned a television set rose from less than a million to 44 million. Political events such as: the Mccarthy speech, the election debates of Nixon vs. Kennedy, news of the Vietnam War, live broadcast of Martin Luther King Junior’s civil right’s speech and march and lastly news reports following up on the assassination of president JFK. On a cultural scale, the television affected

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a TV in the 1950’s? The invention of the television had a puissant impact on the ideas and values of the 1950’s The values that TV changed was family life. TV impacted this by showing what a near-perfection family looks like. in the article The Impact of TV on the Economy in the 1950s by Michael Stratford it states “television created a view of what the perfect family life should look like, though few actual families could live up to that ideal.

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Jerry Mander in his book ”Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television” shows how television is creating addiction, giving as exemples a 3-year $5 million study done by NIH, that showed that television can be ”addictive and hypnotic”, and how political figures tried to stop such researches(”The President suppressed the study and commissioned another group to re-do it”). Mander also mentions about Marine Winn’s work, that talks about the effect called ”The Plug-In Drug” created by television, wich is wielding an addictive influence on the very young and it is causing dependency simply by showing ”ever-changing array of sights and sounds coming out of the machine” and ”wild variety of images meeting the eye”. As a result, the media is not just showing addictive programs but it also selects for us what to watch, and by creating dozens of programs they gives people the imprestion that they choose what they are watching, when in fact, the information it is easilty

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