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Society has always had icons. But today an icon can create another icon. With the proliferation of movie stars, musicians, athletes, and models; modern technology has played an enormous part in how we dress, speak, act, and even vote. Society has so many icons from both past and present, including people and symbols, but the most influential may be that of the media.

Much of the media today consists of radio, television, print, and computers. What probably has been the most influential is television. Television includes more of our senses than the other mediums, with the exception of computers which are closely similar. Each time we turn on the TV, we are bombarded with history, comedy, music, fiction, current events, and advertisement to name a few. Media today has much more influence on our lives than what we really may want to accept. With the advent of MTV in the early 80’s, the style of music, the way we act, dress, even speak, has ...