My mom didn't necessarily grow up with a TV in her home. The newspaper was a big part in her life because her farther read aloud the articles every morning during breakfast whether anyone was listening or not. Once a TV became more accessible, she would occasionally watch the news with her family.
Her farther is a statistics kind of man and he watched it regularly to know simple things like the weather, not just for his hometown but for everywhere that they would talk about. Watching news on a television gave him insight about places that he was passionately curious about.
His curiosity for the world still exists today. He will turn the news on and find the weather for the United States and call my mom to tell her what weather is coming our way. Without the news being broadcasting in this medium, curiosity of millions wouldn't be satisfied.
Through news and regular TV shows, my mom also started to learn English so she could have a small understanding once she moved to America. She examined how people spoke and how they order things and what to say when asked certain questions. Since news channels normally have a lot of pictures, it was easy to learn what simple words like sun or rain meant.
News channels also let my mom know whether to take us to school or not in the winter, as most parents did. In elementary school, we all remember waiting for our parents to watch the news to tell us if was a snow day or not and I think that is one of the greatest means of the news :)
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