Broadcast (television and radio)

Everything comes from small beginnings. Television and radio does too. The television before it became the television we are using now started from rotating-disc technology to transmit pictures over wire. Through time it was reinvented and it became better and better up to the present. For the radio it started as a simple recording machine until it became to what we know now.

Back in the days, our ancestors didn’t have radio or television to entertain them. I remembered my grandmother telling me that back in the days if you television it means you are rich. They only have black and white television and sounds isn’t something big deal, they are already happy with simply watching pictures moving. They didn’t bother looking for sounds. She compared her time to the present. She told me that the youth now are more interested in what is shown on the television than being with our own family. She said that we, the youth, are more interested in useless information that we get from the television than spending quality time and interacting with our families. She said the same thing with the radio, she said that before the parents used to read stories or pass the stories about the family to their kids, now she could see us sleeping with our earphones. She said that yes, maybe the television brought new horizons in spreading information easily, but it has also brought division in the family.

My grandmother told me that through the passing of time the purpose and uses of the television and radio drastically change. She told me that there was a time when television was used to deceive and brainwash the people. There was a time when it was used for purely political reason. Now, television and radio are used not only to entertain but to also advertise products. The lives of the people are now centered on it. It is especially the youth that’s greatly affected by the power of media. We are drawn to buy unnecessary things because of it. We are experiencing colonial mentality because of the things we see.