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How has visual entertainment shaped American culture and values?

The inventors of the television around the 1950's seen an idea for the invention far before the technology was ever introduced. Most of the American's today had a family member who had a television set in their homes by 1950 and can remember stories about the event, and media entertainment has brought its own set of challenges and benefits. Television has helped in creating our culture by the advertisements of newspapers, books, magazines by the way of content and design.

In the early stages of invention, the developers thought that if the "audio waves could be separated from the electromagnetic spectrum to create radio, so too TV waves be separated to transmit visual images" (Lule, 2012, p. 603). Most probably...