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Newspapers started advertising ads on their pages to promote business.
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Silver screen movie starts like Mary Pickford and Adele DeGarde made movies that entertained many people across the US
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Newspapers and writers start to exentuate situations and over exaggerating stories so people read it.
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Muckrackers such as Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair reveal the true and controversial situations behind big business
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Guglielmo Marconi, innovator of long range radio communication, sets up a station that can allow radios to send all the way over to Europe.
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With the development of tv growing, sports events like racing were able to telvise the first Indy 500
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The mass media flock to cover the story of the Titanic which was said to be one of the most read events in American history
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The 1912 Olympics would be photographed and videod and was also using new technology
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World War 1 starts and mass media advetises the use of war bonds
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The Luisitania is sunk by a German U-boat in non battle seas. Mass media then made this event very popular, making people demand war
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The 19th amendment is ratified giving women the right to vote changing America forever, making this one of the biggest headlines in US newspaper history
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Big companies start using radios to advertise their products to the public
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On March 3 1923, Time Magazine made its debut with a big bang.
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The first Macy's Thanksgiving Parade is held in New York City making a new tradition in American lives and media
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Billbaord Magazine debuts for the first time and posts its first list of top singers
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Esquire Magazine makes debut saying the magazine is for men, making it very popular among men
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On December 5, 1933 Congress passes an amendement to officially end the prohibition on alcohol
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The zepplin, the Hindenburg, crashed and exploded in Lakehurst New Jersey
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The most acclaimed movie, The Wizard of Oz, was one of the very few movies who used color in the production
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Nazi Germany enters Poland kicking off the start of Wolrd War 2
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Edward Murrow's juornalist group joins together at CBS to report news for many years
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Japan surprise attacks the US base of Pearl Harbor, the very next day millions of Americans listen FDR declare war on Japan
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The President of the United States during World War 2 dies of natural causes making a scramble for the next person to become president
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Japan surrenders ending World War 2, finally bringing peace to the world
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The Chicago Tribune accidentally releases a front cover statement saying "Dewey defeats Truman"
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Korea invades the United States ally South Korea, in which the United States declares war on North Korea
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Around 1956 Elvis Presely becomes a well known, an attribute from mass media from talking about him so much. A sensation around America giving the new age of "rock n roll"
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President Eisenhower sends National Guard soldiers too escort 9 black students to Little Rock Central High School to put forward integragtion of black and white schools
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The space race between the Soviet Union and the United States begins to see who can get a man in space first starting a political and media clash
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Famous rock artists Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" die in a plane crash
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The president debate is televised to the United States for the first time, the candidates at the time were Richard Nixon and John F Kennedy
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With the help of the Soviets, Cuba aims nuclear missiles at the United States, causing a political standoff and a possible nuclear war
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In his motorcade President Kennedy is shot from by 2 snipers and assassinated which was caught on live tv
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The first Super Bowl in football history is played by the Green Bay Packers and the Kansis City Chiefs in which the Packers win, big television event that was watched by over 40 million people
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Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to ever walk on the moon, defeating the Soviets to putting a man on the moon. Over half a billion people watched the event
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4 students at Kent State University are shot dead and many more injured causeing political backlash
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Arab extremists break into Olympic Village and take 11 Israeli athelets hostage, killing them all in the end, making media back splash
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After the watergate scandal, Richard Nixon was about to be impeached, but resigned instead making this the 2nd time a president resigned
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Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs create the Apple 1 computer, making it the first of its kind. This will contribute to mass media greatly in the future
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The Viking 1 lands on Mars for the first time signifing an advance in space travel to NASA
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John Lennon is shot dead in New York City by Mark Chapman, millions of people mourn his death
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John Hinckley Jr attempts to assassinate President Reagan, event was caught on live television in America
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MTV opens up its channel changing music to the public forever
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The space shuttle Challenger explodes a few seconds after take off, this was televised on live tv in America which was watched by millions of people
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East Germany finally opens its border to East Germany in which millions of people migrate from East to West Germany
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Robbers dressed as cops trick the guards at a museum to steal 12 expensive art works worth over $500 million
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Saddam Hussein orders the invasion of Kuwait for oil. The United States begins operation Desert Shield to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi forces
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Nokia sends very first text message to another mobile cell phone revolutionizing communication forever
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Bill Clinton becomes the 42nd president of the United States
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2 teenage students shoot and kill 15 students before killing themselves causing social unrest in America
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Panic all over the word as the new year comes, fear that computers wont work, the stock market will crash, mass media in a state of panic
