Media Coverage of Major World Events Ultimately Improving through Technological Advances.

Throughout american history, people have made it important that all significant events be remembered and documented by any means neccessary. Mostly all facets of media are technological innovations such as the radio, television, computer, etc. Each having a part in broadcasting major events in our world history. But something as "primitive" as the radio is treated to be less handy in current times. Although the radio had been extremely popular back during World War II, in today's time, controversy throughout the world and society can be captivated by just the video camera on your cell phone. A "Visual Aid" to life has been developed by the advancement of T.V., Computers, and cellular phones, where incredible footage can be exposed, developing new ideas and controversy. Take for example the plane attacks of 9/11. Footage of the first crash was amazingly caught on camera. This created critical analyzations of the attacks, which wouldn't have reached the same extent if never witnessed.

Major events in the world are now popularized as not just threats, but helping to shape our society. As the media grows, different concepts of promotion and advertising grow as well. The drive to consume as much information as possilbe overwhelmingly high. And why woudn't it be? Technology exist almost everywhere now, and because of this information is shared a lot quicker than has ever before.

Cell phones have become the main sources of information, where the internet and video are accessible and "texting" information is quite common.