Media

Media Television, newspapers, and the radio all play a major role in a lot of Americans lives. It provides a way that the country can see what is going on through pictures, sounds, and testimonies of other people. One thing that the media can do is show certain sides of a story without showing the other. The media had a tremendous influence on the American society and culture during the past half century. This effect was shown differently in each decade because different events were happening to the United States. Abbie Hoffman used the media perfectly to convey his message and beliefs across America. The Vietnam War was also another event that shaped the way Americans viewed war and how they viewed the rest of the world. Events and news that is happening now are still shaping and changing the way society it and how society thinks. The media was an important tool in making country aware of what was going on. “Television news coverage of the white South’s violent resistance to integrated schooling forced the racial issue into the nation’s consciousness.”(Jezer 33) The integration of the fifties was one of the most media, war, government, country, one, american, america, way, vietnam, united, television, states, showing, over, news, happening, communist, about, world, time, students, show, school, little, first, demonstrations, being, been, against, abbie, view, throughout, society, rock, radio, people, past, newspapers, liberal, jezer, huac, hoffman, going, events, event, during, coverage, because, young, years