A couple of questions: Please post your answers as comments to this post.
1. Who was Philo Farnsworth?
2. Why didn't he want his children to watch television?
3. What does this tell you about the early development of the medium? Does it still hold true today? Why? Or why not?
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- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
2 comments:
A. Philo earned the patent for television.HE INVENTED TV!
B. He believed that it was nothing on television that was worthwhile.
C. Yes, many people still feel that most of the stuff on TV is useless and not intellectually stimulating
1. He invented televison in 1927.
2. No he really didn't let his childern watch televison.
3. It still holds true today so everyone can be up to date with everything going on in today's life.
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