VANDENBROUCK Claire

America the beautiful: the best and the worst
Subject: TV Media, talk shows in America.

We base our subject on media in America today. Indeed, America seems to be very influenced by TV shows which are everywhere in American lives. Moreover, we can see the . influences of American series and TV shows in French TV channels as W9 too in many different aspects with the show “Next” that is typically an American TV program. There is an rent international way for these shows with for example for The American Idol broadcasting to over 100 nations outside of the United States.

We will try to understand why such programs become so famous and major in the American society. The target of this subject is to bring a thought about the roots which imply that American people give so many importances to these TV programs. We have to know that these TV shows symbolize most this nation in a way that it permits to the American to keep in mind the American Dream still exists through TV programs as American idol which programs; allows unknown people to be famous quickly and access to important advantag and good advantages social situation. But through these TV programs, we can notice that America is capable of the best and the worst too. In a multicultural approach, in order to understand why such programs are going to target more and more other countries in the world, we will study too different the TV programs (the Oprah Winfrey talk show and the American Idol show) that highlight America still lives with the permanent American Dream in minds.

The Oprah Winfrey talk show

The Oprah Winfrey Show has been launched in 1986 and since this birth; it is a big success in America television. Her website has been created by Winfrey's company to provide resources and interactive contents relating to her shows, magazines, book club, and public charity.

Oprah has a television power to attract public and private; it is helped by the fact that TV is often