I dressed like a Power Ranger when I was little

It’s easy to see, and just as easy to try to argue against, that Television is the most influential establishment in the world today.  Due to the expense involved with producing a television program, and the modern TV infrastructure, and the low cost and easy distribution of comparable programing via the internet, what might pop up on your TV is taking on a new personality.  For much of its nearly century long commercial lifetime, TV was run by small sample, for a small sample. financed by wealthy whites, produced by middle class whites, and intended to entertain the social classes that gave it life.  Most early television was a middle class white family with small problems and an inability to not smile.  As time has gone on the landscape of America has changed and so has our best friend, the TV.  Before the rise of the internet, the majority of TV programs were aimed at the most valuable demographic, leaving little room for diversity in programming.  The mornings were filled with educational programming for the young children not in school, and soap operas and talk shows for the housewives.  With the rise of TV’s in homes it has been one of the most useful tools to educate children of Pre-school age, even more so than pre-school.  Now with more channels putting on different programs, some directed at the high school aged rebel skipping school, it’s not hard for a diaper clad little guy to accidently catch an episode of MTV Real World or a nice scene from spring break when left alone with the remote.  We see sports, dancing, exploring, and all types of activities on TV, we can learn anything, and how to do anything through the TV, and those who will be lazy, will be lazy.  In the time when you only saw one type of family, and one type of person on TV, chances are wherever you travelled what you saw wouldn’t vary that much, but today that’s not the case.  Now no matter where you are or where you have come from, you can likely find someone assuming the back home style.  Slowly, TV, and all media are eroding and molding together world cultures, and eventually blurring the lines from one set of ideas to the next.  TV is the most solidly structured and theoretically reliable mass media, and without it people would be way behind.  Without TV, sure we might not have people looking up to the most ignorant people some agent could find, but we would also be clueless on a lot of what’s going on in the world.