mass media.
newspapers.
Newspapers and magazines were America's way of knowing what's going on around the world and seeing the process of their favorite celebrities's lives. During the twenties, The New York Times was a well-known newspaper which originally had only 14 pages, and by the middle of 1920-1930, the newspaper grew to 50 pages in each days paper. The sales of newspapers multiplied by 2 between 1914 and 1927.
Publically-made papers sold more themselves by buying 2 major papers and putting them together, so everyone only had one newspaper to read. These newspaper makers made much more money than before, due to so much information being in one place. The money that these newspapers made was what drove them to keep them alive. Newspapers decided to make easier to read articles with more appealing titles and more compact information with less words. This technique was turned into what we call magazines.
Publically-made papers sold more themselves by buying 2 major papers and putting them together, so everyone only had one newspaper to read. These newspaper makers made much more money than before, due to so much information being in one place. The money that these newspapers made was what drove them to keep them alive. Newspapers decided to make easier to read articles with more appealing titles and more compact information with less words. This technique was turned into what we call magazines.
magazines.
Magazines replaced newspapers that focused on serious topics with more entertainment. magazines focused on fashion sentences, sports, stories about crimes, and most of all... pictures. William Randolph Hearst, a magazine publisher, decided that magazines should be 90% entertainment, and only 10% news.
films.
Although movies were popular in the 1890's, audiences grew in the 1920's. From 1910 to 1930, the amount of movie theaters grew from 5,000 to 22,500. The population was only less than 125,000,000, but that didn't stop the 80,000,000 tickets being sold each week from being sold.
Charlie Chaplin, a comedy movie genius, dressed in baggy dress pants, a whacky rounded top hat, a dirty suit, a cane, and his famous mustache made funny black and white comedy movies with no sound. The first sound film, The Jazz Singer released with speech, singing, music, music, and sound effects in 1927.
Charlie Chaplin, a comedy movie genius, dressed in baggy dress pants, a whacky rounded top hat, a dirty suit, a cane, and his famous mustache made funny black and white comedy movies with no sound. The first sound film, The Jazz Singer released with speech, singing, music, music, and sound effects in 1927.