Television: The Cock of the Walk

While televisions may not have started out so popular, but they're certainly on top today. Televisions began as a luxury that only the wealthy could afford. Now, there are more people with television than indoor plumbing. Why is that? Well first of all think about what television brought us. Television had already done many things that many of the other media outlets had done. It could broadcast across long distances and it could report breaking news. So why did television become so popular? Well I think it was because television could show visual images. Imagine if the War of  the Worlds incident happened when televisions were prominent in households. The people back then would've instantly dismissed this as there was no visual of this. I believe that people will believe you if there is actual visual evidence. Another reason why television became popular is because all the celebrities were moving over to television since they weren't well known in the public eye. People only recognized their voices, but some radio celebrities were still unknown because their radio voices differ from their normal speaking voices. As a result, radio celebrities moved to television. most likely because they wanted recognition. This caused radio to demassify and television became the top media outlet during it's time.