There was a time when Groucho Marx said, I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Everyone laughed at the comment because television didnt seem very applicable to the way people lived their lives it was not portable and did not seem practical.
At the time it was believed that television stole the imaginations of people because on the small screens in the corners of rooms across America no one had to listen to the radio and wonder what the world was like that was being described in the theater of the mind.
Well, times have changed and the growth of video is huge while the statement made by Groucho Marx is laughed at because television has indeed changed the way we view our world.
MTV took the notion of finding meaning in a song to an unusual place where the association you might have with a song was no longer based on a set of personal experiences tied to the song, but rather the video released in support of the single.
Ann Landers once said, Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
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