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       Researchers study telivision to understand its effects on viewers and to measure its effectiveness in selling pruducts. Much of the research on TV audiences is marked research, paid for by corporations with something to sell. Let me repeat, largely advertisers fund research on television. ( |' k2 x5 V! E; M4 Q# z% N
        The television industry depends on advertising money to survive, and this relationship influences what television offers viewers. Advertisers aim to reach mass audiences and specific social groups. In turn the television industry tries to meet the needs of advertisers, because pleasing the advertisers is nearly as important as pleasing the public. This means advertisers have a lot of control over what programs are made and when they are shown. - @+ q* i8 H% J/ G/ p
        The American television industry is controlled by people who are more interested in the culture of consumerism than in preserving cultures or natural resources. I mean, for the first time in history, most of stories children learn don't come from parents or schools, they come from a small number of large corporations with something to sell. And this control of consumerism is exported to other countries.  Z" T3 m& o7 d- s! N* M
        Television is the most effective marketing tool ever created. Many advertisements apply basic psychology by sort of appealing to our insecurities and desires. Ads convince us that the things we once thought were luxuries are now necessities. Television is highly skilled at creating images of affluence, not just in the ads,but in the programs as well. Using sophisticated market research, programmers and advertisers sort of paint a picture of life centered on material possessions. This kind of life may look glamorous and desirable, but it's all at the expense of personal relationships.
# T0 {+ A4 f, u; X0 }        As you probably can tell, I tend to agree with critics of the media. Advertising does create false needs, and products we really need don't require advertising. Television promotes consumerism .it shows us things, things and more things, It encourages greed and envy. Television helps create a wasteful society, where things are thrown out long before they're worn out.

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. e3 f6 i) D7 H& D3 m7 g$ dThe origins of Jazz are as richly textured as the music itself .the term “Jazz” really covers many different kinds of music. In the late 19-century, African Americans began performing the folk music known as the blues. Whose origins lay in the work songs of slavery days. Within the African-American community, the blues evolved into popular commercial music.
0 D! P" {  {, C; H/ a1 j' MIn 1914,a black orchestra leader named WCH, wrote the “St Louis Blues.” Adapting the African-American folk idiom to European conventions of orchestration and harmony. Handy produced a hit song. The “St. Louis Blues” was tremendously influential among black and white musicians, and Handy’s style of music became famous on the name of Jazz.+ b' r  Z3 x: e% h( L( l2 O1 w. S  E; c5 _
Early Jazz musicians were active in many cities and towns throughout the southern US. It was New Orleans-with its long traditional of African-American music-that was the home of many “fathers” of Jazz. After World War One, the musicians of New Orleans joined the general northward migration of African Americans. The first great national center of Jazz was Chicago, from there, the music entered the mainstream and even gave its name to the decade of the 1920s.
: M' `8 N' m, ?$ E; O8 G* mJazz, blending African-American folk roots with elements of popular music and European classical traditions, has been called “American’s classical music”.