Today's mass media, specifically the television medium, is centered on reflecting or mirroring the "reality" of life, offering the public (as audience) programs and glimpses of life as lived by the characters/actors of reality TV shows. The reality TV phenomenon have become the stapl...

Radio is a part of most people\'s everyday lives, but more so is television. Television virtually emerged from Radio, which set the foundation for what is known today as the primary source of mass media and communication. The reason is that almost all households in developed nations have a televisio...

Watching Television is usually an every day occurance for the vast majority of people in the world. With New shows starting every day, basic cable provides a large range of shows and series. There are many entertaining, and not so entertaining shows on television. The five best shows still on T.V. ...

From the first broadcast television program to the most recent program, racism has been a prevalent issue on TV. Stereotypical roles in society have been exaggerated by television programs, keeping racism alive and breathing in America. The careful selections of ethnicities in role casting have ha...

RPA RPA is a medical show currently screening on Channel 9. Basically, it invites the viewer at home to discover what goes on behind closed doors at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. It has recently won an award for the best reality TV series at the Logies for 2003 which shows it is a popular sho...

Children and TV Violence Violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior. Saturday morning cartoons is some of the most violent time on TV. Despite slight variations over the past decade, the amount of violence on television has remained at consistently high levels. Why is it that like ...

Watching television is one of the most popular pastimes in the world. Almost all children do so; some even take the liberty of slipping out of bed unnoticed at night just to watch a show that they like. However, what most people do not realize is that television can ruin your eyesight, cause lack of...

Television Violence From the time I remember watching my older siblings flip through the stations of our T.V. I remember violence on T.V. From the simplest children shows such as Heman, Shera, and Transformers the violence within television has risen. But what these pictures paint in our hea...

When we watch T.V. we are usually looking for a good show, we want to be entertained with something that is either going to make us laugh or that we are going to learn something from. The Jerry Springer show is a talk show that is been on for years now, it is very famous because of the controversial...

Reality shows have been around for years in other parts of the world but only just recently in Australia has it moved from a subculture into a mainstream. Reality TV is a mixture of documentaries, dramas and game shows, putting people into unscripted, unpredictable situations. CBS experimented...

The current popularity of reality TV all over the world has made reality TV as one of the potent movers of real life drama, challenge and social conflicts in contemporary television entertainment. Reality TV symbolizes the social life of contemporary viewers. It brings out into open the true to li...

Media plays a significant role in our society today. It is all around us, from the shows we watch on television, the music we listen to on the radio, to the books and magazines we read each day. Television more so that any of the other medias achieves a myriad of different goals. These goals ra...

"Television is a casual factor behind approximately one half of the homicides committed in the United States, according to Epidemiologist B.S. Centerwall, writing in the journal of the American Medical Association." (Levine) So, does media violence hurt? And if so who does it hurt? Media...

Television was invented as a means of providing entertainment and began with shows such as "Leave It To Beaver" and "Lassie". Throughout the years, though, television, along with it's counterpart, the movie, has evolved into perhaps one of the most graphic displays of violence and is having a large ...

29 March 2001The Monster: The Entertainment IndustryTelevision was invented as a means of providing entertainment and began with shows such as "Leave It To Beaver" and "Lassie". Throughout the years, however, the entertainment industry has evolved into one of the most graphic displays of violence. T...