Entertainment and Media Culture
Vincent Arellano
October 7, 2013
Marie Loggia-Kee
Entertainment and Media Culture
Entertainment has evolved in many ways. Communication of events had been a difficult task to achieve in past. Radio was there to inform us of the current news, but without any visualization. Television was brought to consumers so that society can receive a visual way of getting some correspondence. The Internet was invented to give society a way to communicate worldwide.
There are people in our society who go through difficult and time-consuming challenges in order to entertain us. The radio has been and still is a common way to get the news, weather, and sports. People could imagine the happenings around the world as the radio announcer would describe in detail the occurrences that would happen. A presidential speech could be described as the crowd cheers in the background. A sports event can bring the excitement level to the full potential with the emotions expressed by the announcer. The weatherman can bring exciting and detailed events created by inclement weather.
Television is society’s primary source of entertainment. Without the TV society would still be imagining today’s current events as described by our radio announcer. The TV has changed our culture in so many ways. Many people gather around to view the vast media, sports events, presidential speeches, public announcements, movies, shows, and a plethora of other media shown on different networks that provide the entertainment for us. TV is now taken to as an entertainment status. The overwhelming choices of choosing the right TV is an exhaustive decision. People get the news, shows, movies, and now Internet on TV.
The Internet has brought people entertainment and mass media at an instant. Society uses the Internet to search for anything the person desires at any moment. The rise of speeds on the Internet by the service providers also add to the way society gets the...