Discuss the below:
Create a 250 words state whom you have selected and what led you to do so. Are you choosing to research an icon who is very familiar to you or one who is less familiar? What led you to select this person and what do you think is an early important question on him/her that you may wish to explore?
POPC 2900: TV as Popular Culture Research Essay 1
Below is a list of television icons that are approved for the first research essay in POPC 2900 for the Fall 2017 semester. If you are interested in choosing a television icon who is not listed, please contact the Instructor for approval.
1. Philo Farnsworth
2. David Sarnoff
3. John L. Baird
4. William Paley
5. Rod Serling
6. Milton Berle
7. Desi Arnaz
8. Lucille Ball
9. Aaron Spelling
10. Andy Griffith
11. Gene Roddenberry
12. Mary Tyler Moore
13. Norman Lear
14. Andy Griffith
15. Sid Caesar
16. Jackie Gleason
17. Barbara Walters
18. Betty White
19. Edward R. Murrow
20. Walter Cronkite
21. Irna Phillips
22. Phil Donahue
23. Oprah Winfrey
24. Johnny Carson
25. David Letterman
26. Jay Leno
27. Carroll O'Connor
28. Mark Goodson
29. Bob Barker
30. Bill Cosby
31. Mike Wallace
32. Ed Bradley
33. Don Hewitt
34. Agnes Nixon
35. Lorne Michaels
36. Diahann Carroll
37. Susan Harris
38. Bea Arthur
39. Charles Van Doren
40. Farrah Fawcett
41. Katie Couric
42. Nat "King" Cole
43. Gertrude Berg
44. Merv Griffin
45. Paul Henning
46. Sherwood Schwartz
47. Tim Russert
48. Ed Sullivan
49. Flip Wilson
50. Larry King
51. Freddie Prinze
52. Susan Lucci
53. Ozzie Nelson
54. Alan Alda
55. W. Hanna & J. Barbera
56. Jay Ward
57. Garry Marshall
58. Larry Hagman
59. Roone Arledge
60. Jim McKay
61. Stephen Bochco
62. Jerry Seinfeld
63. Michael J. Fox
64. David Chase
65. Jack Paar
66. Steve Allen
67. Matt Groening
68. T. Parker & M. Stone
69. Seth McFarlane
70. Stephen J. Cannell