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Newspapers have been around since the 17th century, just not in the form we know them in today. However, newspapers were the first ways to communicate news to people around the United States.

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First radio broadcasts were in 1920, before the radio there was only print media like newspapers.

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1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt Has His First Fireside Chat 

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1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt Has His First Fireside Chat 

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FDR develops fireside chats for the American people to understand the economic crises occurring during the Great Depression. FDR normalized the use of radio broadcasts to inform the people. People reacted well because FDR treated them like a friend. Radio broadcasts were the most effective way to spread information without panicking the people.

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In WWII, people primarily got their news from radio broadcasts or newspapers. Following the news was crucial to connecting Americans on the home front, with those in the war. Only three times a day people got updates on the news. During this time media was censored very heavily, and anything had to be censored before being broadcast. News anchors knew they were obligated to agree and be a part of the "War Effort".

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People felt disheartened to hear of the "pointless war", and that the war continued on. People were fed up with war, and the news took a toll on people.

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The World United By A Single Television Broadcast

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The World United By A Single Television Broadcast

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In 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon. Millions of people sat down together to watch man take his first steps on another place in space other than Earth. The United States was more united this day than ever. Americans were proud to see an American on the moon. People were shocked, and filled with hope for the future.

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Journalism and the Medias' role in the Watergate Scandal

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Journalism and the Medias' role in the Watergate Scandal

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The media was a huge reason of Nixon's resigning, and journalists everywhere have explained their role in the Watergate Scandal. Without the media, critical information could have been hidden from the people. It is an important example of "courageous press coverage under fire" (Feldstein 2007).

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Because of television becoming increasingly popular, news was more believable since people were able to see the news, instead of just hearing it.

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1970's and Advertisements in Children's Media

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1970's and Advertisements in Children's Media

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Action's for Children's Television (ACT) explained the importance of making sure there were not too many advertisements on programs made for children. This occurred early in the 1970's, just after the popular show Sesame Street was released.

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"Two historical clashes between the government and the press occurred in the early 1970s. When the New York newspaper, Times, in June 1971, began publishing a series of news articles summarizing the contents of a 47-volume study of the origins of the Vietnam War, the "Pentagon Papers" case erupted. The study was purely historical and revealed no military secrets, but was highly explosive in terms of political and diplomatic interest. Certain government lies and policy disputes between America and Vietnam's administration were revealed. The White House immediately got an injuction to stop its publication. Finally, after a series of court battles, the Supreme Court recognized the need for government secrecy but found that the government had not made a case that the Pentagon Papers was a threat to national security. The publications of the Pentagon Papers continued. The case significantly damaged the US government's ability to hide information" (library.thinkquest.org 2004).

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In 1986, the spaceship Challenger exploded during liftoff. Many children around the United States witnessed this horrific event, and it became known around the United States as one of the defining moments of the 1980's. The Challenger spaceship had a teacher on it that many students around the country admired. As news outlets broadcasted this moment on live television, it was a moment that people truly felt a reaction unexplainable in words.

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The media played a big role in the scandal of President Bill Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky. This scandal was one of the most known in presidential history, and televisions all around the United States shared this news when it first came out. To this day, this news event still plays a major role in presidential history.

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The news media could not cover the devastation of the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks fast enough. Televison broadcasts all across the United States brought people into mass panic when planes crashed into our Twin Towers. People reacted in a panicked way, and many people saw this as the beginning of the end.

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There was a lot of controversy surrounding Hurricane Katrina and the presidency of George W. Bush. Many news media sources said this was the beginning of the fall of George Bush, and his reaction to Katrina damaged his reputation for life.

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The election of Donald Trump led to a huge controversy around the United States, and news media coverage started to show extremist tendencies on both sides. People reacted in many ways to the controversy of his election.