Another category that has been strongly affected by the changes in media is religion. Religion used to always stay in the church and the only way to see a sermon and talk about it was to go to a church, now you can see a full service on T.V, listen to it on the radio or even talk about God online. My grand father said that he listened to Billy Graham on the radio frequently and he thinks that religious leaders at the time were very dynamic, great speakers and there was no negativity. My mother said that she didn’t really have any religion through media and her thoughts on religious leaders at the time were that they were a joke. She said her reason for these thoughts were because of the leaders at the time, such as Jim Baker and Earnest Angley, who would say, “Put your hands on the T.V. set I can heal you.” I have never really gotten religion thorough media, if I wanted religion I went to church, however I know that it is out there on T.V, radio, and the internet. I feel indifferent to my opinion on religious leaders, because I’m not very religious and I don’t follow politics very closely. I don’t feel like media has changed religion very much, except that it is available to many more people because it’s everywhere, so maybe more people who didn’t practice religion before will now get involved in one. My mother feels that religion has changed over time, and media has had a vast effect, because people think that religion should be just as entertaining as anything else that’s shown on T.V., she doesn’t feel that this is a good idea. My grand father said that he believes religion has changed, and that it has become more political with the help of changing media.

Media has changed throughout these three generations from its medium to how much people used it, to how far the media sources extended and what was received through this media. In my grandparent’s generation, their media was mostly radio and newspaper. My grandfather said that his family got a T.V. when he was thirteen years old; they were one of the first people in his neighborhood to get one. He said that his family listened to radio together every night after dinner to shows such as “Mickey and Molly.” They often listened to records together when his father built a record player into the wall of their house. In my mother’s family, they got most of their news through T.V. She said that they had two, one that the children could watch and one for the parents. They also listened to radio together as well as reading books and magazines to each other. Both my grandfather and my mother said that there were no real limits on their T.V. watching except that they couldn’t watch it during homework time. They said that the reasons for not having limits on what to watch was because there were no violent or profane shows on back then. So we can see from this information that it hasn’t been till my generation that we have started to put violence and profane material into the media. My grand father said that he received the news about JFK’s assassination from his next door neighbor when they arrived home, then they turned on the T.V. to catch the rest of the story. My mother received information of the assassination on T.V.

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