Making room for TV

I found this article to be very interesting mainly because of its focus on bringing families together after a time of war. I think that TV’s in the present day are a commodity that some may find as distracting. But when they were first invented it was a way to bring families in the same room and share time together. I also liked how the article mentioned that the television brought the world back to a time of domestic love and affection. Many people were experiencing post traumatic stress disorder and the TV was an effective way of making people happy and allowing them to forget the war and move on. Advertisements were also something that boomed at this time. They were another form of entertainment, which today people may find commercials rather annoying. The commercials were another form of expression and another form of togetherness. The TV was a source of entertainment that today people may not value. I think that we are so used to televisions now that families find other ways of being together. I don’t think its the first thing people think of as a family event. In many current house holds a lot of people have several TV’s or even have a TV in every room of their house. In this way the TV is something that people watch on their or when they want to be alone. It was interesting to me to read that people used to have debates on the perfect place to put their TV and what room would bring people together the best. I think that these types of problems are something that we aren’t familiar with any more and the traditional aspects of the television have been lost. Now with the advancements in technology and the internet, some homes don’t even use TVs any more and only use their computers to to watch their favorite shows or movies. Although TVs are still a very common device in many households, the idea behind the TV has greatly changed since its invention.