Television

Television was invented by John Logie Baird with the help of his little friend BooBoo. He had been producing a long-running radio documentary series about America's National Parks and thought that moving pictures would improve the presentation. 

The first demonstration of television was greeted with massive protests on the streets of the world's great capitals with opposition centering on the welfare of the tiny actors who had to be used so as to fit into the screen. Advances in technology that allowed normal sized actors to work in television and the protest movement soon died down. 

Early television was parrafin powered. This was satisfactory, but the picture became cloudy when you turned the wick up so eventually electricity was used instead. 

Television is now an accepted forum for artistic expression and is considered by most educated people to be the highest form of expression. Indeed, in a recent survey, 93% of working artists described television as their favourite medium and 86% agreed that Reality TV is the pinnacle of 21st century culture. *

*all statistics have been made up