After the trial, the anti-payola statute was passed under which payola became a misdemeanor, penalty by up to $10,000 in fines and one year in prison. Getting radio play would allow the songs to reach its expected audience and help launch the artist’s career. This practice also helped small and independent labels break the stronghold of the music industry by major labels. To better understand what was behind the Payola scandal in the 1950’s, let me discuss a little history about the radio industry. In the 1930’s and 1940’s, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) thrived on the sales of sheet music and recordings of Tin Pan Alley songs, the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the U.S. at the time, but the creation of radio in the 1940’s was geared toward recorded music and things started to change in the industry.
Chapter 4 Milton Berle was an American comedian and actor who has contributed excessively to television. Ever since Texaco Star Theatre came to television his career rose to the top. He became known as Mr. Television, and brought a lot of money to NBC, and other companies because this show was so popular. People loved this show so much they would go out and buy a TV just so they could watch it. Milton Berle invented what people call vaudeo, a new trend/vaudeville style.
Every episode reminds us that we live in such an amazing country that allows us to exercise our right of freedom of speech in any way possible.The show also targets celebrities and politicians to shows that they are just like everyone else. South Park has the unique ability to update its audience with current events going on in our country or worldwide that most would overlook. South Park takes hard news, adds satire with raunchy humor; which then creates interest from the public. It also helps that South Park has a bigger audience base than CNN as well. South Park provides us with in your face politics with no apologies.
Nick Bonfiglio Honors Composition II February 9, 2010 Brooke Hessler Stephen Colbert The “Truthiness” of Comic Ingenuity Acclaimed satirist Stephen Colbert has become renowned for his revolutionary comedic style, as well as his amazing marketing techniques that have shot him to the top of the cable ratings within the few years his television show, The Colbert Report, has been in existence. Since 2005, The Colbert Report, a Daily Show spin-off, parodies the conventions of television news broadcasting, particularly cable-personality political talk shows like The O'Reilly Factor, The Glenn Beck Program and Scarborough Country. Colbert hosts the show in-character as a pompous right wing pundit, who in Colbert’s own words is described as a “well intentioned, poorly informed, high status idiot.” (Rabin) Unlike its parent program, the series focuses less on the day-to-day events, more so concentrating on the foibles of the host-character himself. The Report has been nominated for four Emmy Awards for three consecutive years, and has had made a significant cultural impact in the five years it has been on the air. (Lauria) In formulating his radical satirical presence, Colbert developed a unique set of mental processes worth studying for any individual seeking to self actualize themselves in their specialty.
They talk about a wide range of topics such as celebrities, politics, and fashion. When they talk about celebrities they tend to imitate the celebrity and make fun of the celebrity. People do not enjoy being made fun of, but they find it entertaining watching and hearing others get made fun of. When they talk about politics they tend to be biased. When the election was going on they talked mainly about the democratic candidate and talk very little about the republican candidate.
A soap opera is an ongoing work of fiction usually concerned with everyday life. Successful soaps may continue for many years, and because each episode has a self contained plot, it is possible for viewers to begin watching at anytime which is a big part of there appeal (Chandler, 1994). Reality television is a genre of television which presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents of actual events, and features “everyday” people as opposed to actors. There has been a current explosion of reality television since around 2000 (The Best of Television, 2005), with reality shows such as “American Idol”, “The Biggest Loser” and “Big Brother” getting the number one spots in television ratings. Two programs from each genre where the
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA PHILOLOGY AND FOREING LANGUAGES GRAMMAR II CARLOS ENRIQUE SÁNCHEZ REYES Practical Task: Analyzing language for sociocultural purposes George Carlin’s Ten Commandments was one of his most celebrated performances. Yet, it was just one more show from many, during nearly forty years of career, in which he built himself a name among the most popular stand-up comedians in the world. His routines were always based on his view on controversial topics such as politics and religion. His particular use of Black Humor to refer to these entities of society and the wide diffusion of his style through different media gave him the possibility to attract big audiences to his shows and to a large following. In respect to his view on religion, he could have been defined as an Atheist, (though he always rejected this label as he stated: “the fact of being an Atheist itself means believing in something”) thus it is clear that the crowd that attended “The Ten Commandments” comprised mainly Atheist people or at least people whom differed from Catholicism.
The term judicial activism has been around for six decades and has become a very popular tool for criticizing judge’s behaviour. A man named Arthur Schlesinger Jr. introduced the term "judicial activism" to the public in a Fortune magazine article in January 1947. When the term first came out to the public it had a very positive connotation, but as the years went on people did not agree with crucial decisions being left to select persons when dealing with an uneasy method of determining the fate of millions. It is not right that judges can seemingly “change” the constitution at their discretion especially when their decision bears such importance and could potentially be life-altering. Judges play an important role in interpreting the language used in statutes in order to give them practical application.
(Source D). Among these publications were People, Teen People, STAR, and National Enquirer. Television also fuels the invasion of privacy with shows that focus on celebrity gossip, such as Entertainment Tonight. While many of the daily events of a public figure’s life can seem interesting to the average Joe, it is merely for entertainment rather than for necessity in the average person’s life to know where the famous go on vacation, or go to dinner, or what they spend their money and time on.
What happens when a show defies this ideology? Television and film are both popular forms of narrative, though television tends to exhibit a single character's life much more extensively than film; we get to visit with these people every week. Dominate culture and ideology influence what is put on television, but this pop-culture with emerging values then turns around and influences our ideologies and dominant culture. The lesbian-themed drama, which debuted in January 2004, has been groundbreaking. Never before had a show with an all-lesbian ensemble that spoke directly to lesbian issues aired on television.