Entertainment is like a painting..Ü

Whenever we talk about entertainment, I’m sure, many people think of television, movies, magazines etc.. For me, entertainment is a “Wow!”.. Everything that we enjoy watching, reading and listening are all products of the entertainment revolution. Was there a time when we come to think of how all these began? Well me, just recently. Why is it a “wow” for me? Well, I was very much astounded by how the early people were able to come up with this. I can’t imagine life today without the music, movies and all that compelling things that add color in our lives. We owe a lot to the marvelous people who brilliantly thought of these. Magazines for example… There are many kinds of magazines nowadays but there are particular magazines that we usually buy so as in television. On television, we know that there are many TV shows. We have news, comedy shows, variety shows, soap operas, game shows and many others. Among all these, soap operas are the most popular ones in the industry. Many people would want to watch soap operas more often than news and other TV shows. They catch people’s attention that’s why; people would really watch them regularly. We know that soap operas are being televised in primetime. This is from six o’clock in the evening onwards. The reason is that, people by that time would already be at home after work and school. Some would even rush in going home because of the excitement in watching their favorite soaps. That is how appealing entertainment is.

One time, I learned a short story from my friend. This is about the death of his girl friend. It goes like this. His girlfriend was climbing a coconut tree that time to I think get some coconuts or just to stay there day for fun. While she was already on top of the tree, her friends were calling for her saying that it was already time for the Meteor Garden. Because of so much enthusiasm for the show that she loves to watch, she accidentally fell from the tree. When I heard this, I don’t know if I would be sad or be disappointed in what happened but this is one thing I learned. Entertainment is that powerful in appealing to the people. We often forget about some other things whenever we talk or hear about our favorite shows. In students, some would be destructed every time they would want to watch their favorite shows but they know they should study their lessons first. For some, they would even choose to watch television rather than to study or to make their home works. See? That’s how prominent entertainment is especially in the younger ones.

Mp3’s, I-pods etc.. These are the things common in teenagers nowadays. We see them walking with earphones on their ears, when studying, reading, playing and whenever they want to. Like in television, everything euphonic is also appealing to the mass. That is why we have a many radio stations wherein, whenever we ride on vehicles, we would be entertained by the songs we hear that would make us enjoy the ride (only if we like the song being played).

That’s entertainment… Even in newspapers and tabloids, you will find an entertainment section. People are like houses that need paint to make it more colorful. Thus, entertainment is needed to make life more enjoyable and satisfying.

Is it reliable enough??

Well, news has been a part of radio programs. Aside from the songs comedy, music, serials and drama, news is one of the programs we can attend to in the radio. As what I observe in our society, we are easily being wrapped up with what we hear. If people nowadays are like this, I believe that people who lived in the early 2oth century might as well be similar to us. As we can see and experience, technology is ubiquitous.. It really booms every generation. Today, cell phone is the most common thing we use to communicate. But, don’t you notice that even if we have cell phones or telephones, we still consider immediately the news or hullabaloos that we hear in the radio? Like for example.. In my elementary and high school years, one of the things that our school is known for is that, whenever there is a storm or heavy rain, classes are never suspended unlike in the other schools. Most probably, we would hear this in the radio.. “Classes will be suspended due to the bad weather.” When some of the parents of the new students heard the announcement in the radio, they believed in it. As a result, they didn’t let their children to come to school. The point is, even if we have these things that we use to communicate, we sometimes don’t bother to use it to confirm things because we heard it in the radio and so, we immediately get a hold of the information given to us. Somehow, except for some instances, I am like that. I easily believe in everything I hear in the radio as true – may it be an announcement or news.

Now, suppose that I am one of those 32 million people listening to the broadcast at that evening. Would I have been affected by it like the other listeners??

Well of course I would. My first reason would have been that, if the broadcast was being heard by over millions of people. Why would they broadcast that news if that was just for fun? What they have broadcasted was a serious matter. For me, there are two factors that would induce me to consider the broadcast as true.

One is the way the program is arranged or presented. In what I have listened to, the original dramatization of the war of the worlds by H.G Wells, it seemed to be believable because of the order of the program where in the first one was the introduction of the director of the Mercury theater and star of the broadcast.. and then, there was a sudden weather report and then later, an interview with an astronomer about what he saw as he observed Mars.. the orchestra, the intercontinental news from Toronto Canada.. These things.. I mean, as a listener, I would really believe in the news because they had their way of satisfying the listeners through the information they want us to get; and by their way of supporting their news, they were able to use persons to support their broadcast. The interviews with the astronomer and professor in the broadcast as well as the sudden emergence of the weather reports adds to the factor that the listeners may consider in order to believe in the announcements that has been mentioned.

The other factor is that the reporter was persuasive in his way of speech that he seizes the attention and feelings of the listeners. The most apprehensive part was when he was already saying everything he was seeing and the listeners too, were hearing everything-the commotion.. and then he suddenly coughed because of the black smoke. The coughing really proved that what was being heard from his mouth and the background were true and because we hear him experience it; also when the difficulty on field transmission was illustrated wherein the broadcast became choppy up to the moment he vanished.