Archie Bunker

The civil rights movement played a crucial role in the emerging production practices and self- understanding of network information workers— the makers of news, documentary, and public affairs programming—during the 1950s. During the time, TV news was figuring out what it is going to be. Civil rights was important to TV because not only did it provideTV journalism with much needed vivid pictures and clear-cut stories, but more importantly, it also gave TV the opportunity to define itself,…

Although television (TV) was brought to the United States (US) in the 1950s, it did not become popular with the US public until the post World War II (WWII) era. This was from a variety of factors ranging from the popularity of radio and the cost of owning the technology. Importantly, in the early years of television, wide spread use of animation in TV shows did not exist. By 1960 however, Hanna-Barbara, a television animation studio, began to gain notoriety in the growing media market.…

Mr. Martinez reports, “pornography was really not my thing, I would look at it when it was available, when I was in the Army with the other guys, but I didn’t go out of my way to seek it out. Taking videos of having sex was something I liked when I got married”. Mr. Martinez states that he began videotaping his sexual activity with women when he was thirty-seven years old with his second wife Julie. Mr. Martinez reports that he suggested it to Julie and “it stuck”. He reports that the two…