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...skepticism seemed fair based on early attempts. In 1884, a German inventor created crude moving images by filtering light through a spinning disk punched with holes. In the early 1920s, engineers in the U.S. and U.K. sent still pictures and moving silhouettes using radio waves. In 1928, General Electric broadcast the first TV drama: a modified small spinning disk and bright lamp produced off-center, blurry pictures of cigarette-toting actors gallivanting around what was supposed to be Europe (but was actually Schenectady, N.Y.). It was one of the best offerings at the time. Other must-see TV included such...
Steadily, however, the picture quality improved - and the audience grew. Regular nationwide television broadcasts began in 1939. From 1945 to '48, sales of television sets increased 500%. The first widespread broadcast in color went out in 1954, and today there are televisions in some 110 million U.S. households. Revenues from TV broadcasting, cable, advertising and TV-set sales totaled nearly $182 billion in 2006. Talk about worth the trouble...
...building outrage toward state television can also be traced to the demand last week by Mohammad Reza Shajjarian, Iran's beloved and foremost classical musician, that state TV and radio cease broadcasting his songs. Shajjarian's anthems helped galvanize the Islamic revolution of 1979 and retain today their evocative and emotional pull. "I emphatically asked IRIB not to broadcast my voice, because this is the voice of the dirt and dust and will always remain so," he said in an interview with the BBC, referring to the denigrating term "dirt and dust" with which Ahmadinejad has labeled the protesters...
...scapegoat for Iran's leadership. "The last thing that I want to do is to have the United States be a foil for those forces inside Iran who would love nothing better than to make this an argument about the United States," the President said in an interview broadcast on Monday morning. "We shouldn't be playing into that." Domestic politics is also playing into the strong rhetoric on the part of European leaders like Sarkozy and Merkel, according to Niblett. "It is in Sarkozy's nature to be plain-speaking and tough, and that's played well domestically...
Iranian state television yesterday broadcast the soap operas and covered the news about Rafael Nadal's withdrawal from Wimbledon and Pakistani operations against the Taliban as if they were the most important stories in the world. Meanwhile, arriving over the Internet transom, rough and insistent and bloody, were the tiny electronic dispatches from protesters forced off the streets in Tehran, shaky videos from a city screaming for help. For outsiders tuned in to the blog posts, Facebook updates, Tweets and YouTube videos, the torrent of information was compelling and confusing, emotional and rife with rumors, full of sound and fury...