Why I Want To Escape Small Town

“I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities” (Trent Reznor). The previous quote describes what television means to so many Americans. In a culture like ours, mostly every way we communicate is through cell phones, computers, tablets, and radios. One interesting way is the television. The following paragraphs describe the positive and negative effects of the technology known as television on our past and present.

A man named Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

was a student in a German university. In 1884, he patented the idea of a electromechanical television system. It included a rotating scanning disk with thirty holes, called a Nipkow disk (Bird 1). Almost forty years later, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird created an image with detail to make out a human face (Bird 2). This was a huge step in the television world. In 1928, General Electric sold an experimental electro-mechanical television station. It was called the W2XB. A thirteen inch tall Felix the Cat was one of the first broadcasted images. Later that year, the television receiver was created. Then on September 11th of that year, the first live TV broadcast was produced (Bird 2). With those few years in the beginning completed, the most productive were yet to come.
The Golden Age of the television was between the years 1948 and 1960 (Bird 3). According to Bird, those twelve years were filled with many shows we call "classics" now. Those include I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke. But for the TV people, the shows known as "dramatic anthology programs" are the best. Westinghouse Studio One and Kraft Television Theatre (Bird 3). The reason so many purple in the world today love watching TV on the couch with a bag of chips is because of those years.
After so many years of creating new things for the television, like recorders, VCR's, DVD's, soaps, and sitcoms, the world has been forever changed. With just the touch of a button (on the remote), you can watch up to 1,000 channels. Most televisions come in high definition, so it seems as though you are actually there. There are so many ways that the television has helped the world. Those ways include: mass media broadcasts for weather or crime, the latest sports games in your own living room, your favorite romantic comedy on the movie channel, and just plain funny shows. There are few negative aspects to the television. Those include: false media broadcasts, inappropriate movie scenes for young eyes to see, and negative encouragements for all ages. Other than those, the television is a very important aspect to life and a fulfillment for the needs of people who do not enjoy the outdoors.
The information above described why the television is one of the best ideas in technology. For as long as anyone in this generation can remember, it is one of the only ways to get mass media broadcasts.Also, it is the only way to watch Pretty Little Liars on ABC Family every Tuesday night at eight.