Media

Media is the communication outlets and/or tools used to store and deliver information or data. 
==Background==
Pre-War media is any multimedia material produced before the Great War. The components of the mass media communications industry, such as print media, publishing, photography, motion pictures, broadcasting (radio and television), and advertising, make up media as a whole. Holographic cinematography saw widespread popularity until the Great War. Media of any kind could be recorded and sold on holotapes, including video games. 
Media was often utilized by governments and their affiliated organizations to distribute propaganda, as with the United States government's Project Brainstorm. The Vault-Tec Corporation openly owned and operated at least one television channel.Vault-Tec Channel 9 News reporting, entertainment products, and public service announcements worked in tandem to perpetuate specific ideas. Additionally, pre-War media was dense with advertisements, and gaudy billboard advertisements were common. 
The Great War of 2077 represented the termination of mass media, and ended widespread information accessibility. However, the cultural impact of pre-War pop culture was felt for centuries afterward. Shelf-stable pre-War media materials, such as books and recordings, are consumed by people for entertainment purposes, enough that some of it still qualifies as current pop culture. Those without access to proper media may turn to the consumption of personal recordings or non-entertainment media in search of stimulation.Bleeding Kate's Grindhouse terminal entries
People also continued to create and connect in the wake of the War, taking up abandoned equipment and producing new media, including newspapers, instructional texts, novels, films, pornography, and music. Certain radio frequencies are maintained by post-War groups or individuals. Major regional radio broadcasts may air live or looping shows with consistent hosts, and often play music. Others air pre-War radio plays with intact advertisements.Pirate Radio Radio stations with hosts may also read advertisements for post-War businesses. Some looping recordings also serve as radar beacons, or contain encrypted data masked in the waveform.
==News and radio==
==Motion pictures, television, and plays==
Motion pictures, television, and plays were used as a means of entertainment and propaganda.
===Genres===
* Anime: Hand-drawn/computer animated television originating from Japan.New Reno prostitute: "{850}{}{I think I saw this same situation in an Anime video once.}"(New Reno prostitutes' dialogue) 
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===Television===
* The Adventures of Captain Cosmos: A science fiction television program and comic book by Hubris Comics.
* Armor Ace and the Power Patrol: An animated television series portraying a cartoon depiction of the Sino-American War.
* The Silver Shroud television show: A television series being developed shortly before the Great War.A Vault Dweller: "[Perception] You read comics back... before all this, right?"Sofia Daguerre: " "(Sofia Daguerre's dialogue)
* Pro-Hubology programs: Hubologist programs promoting Hubology, seeking to expose government lies about Hubology.
* RALPHIE the Robot's Incredible Odyssey!: A Vault-Tec Corporation television series.
* The Silver Shroud: A television drama being developed shortly before the Great War.
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* The Atomic Chronicles of K.D. Inkwell
* Fallout - A Special LIVE Report from Galaxy News: A sponsored news broadcast of the official opening of Vault 33. However the broadcast was plagued with technical difficulties forcing the increasingly frustrated news anchor to fill for time for an entire hour. 
===Television channels===
* Channel 6The Courier: "Pleased to meetcha."Festus: "New in town, pardner? Well, let ol' Festus give you the lay of the land. If you're here to redeem your Sunset Sarsaparilla Stars, dump 'em into the slot in the barrel below and I'll count 'em up. If you don't know what Sunset Sarsaparilla Stars are and think ol' Festus is just shooting his mouth off, say "Star Info". If you're here to challenge ol' Festus to a game of Lucky Horseshoes, say "I feel lucky". Lastly, if you're here about the health advisory that aired on channel 6 recently, say "Silly Ol' Advisory.""The Courier: "Silly Ol' Advisory."Festus: "I'm sorry, I didn't quite understand that. Could you repeat it?"The Courier: "Silly Ol' Advisory."Festus: "I'm sorry, I didn't quite understand that. Could you repeat it?"The Courier: "Silly Ol' Advisory."Festus: "While Sunset Sarsaparilla is perfectly safe, a recent independent study - whose validity is currently being challenged - revealed the following: Excessive ingestion of sarsaparilla can lead to deleterious effects including, but not limited to: kidney damage, nausea, digital numbness, anxiety, loss of visual acuity, dizziness, occasional nosebleeds, joint inflammation, tooth decay, sore throat, bronchitis, organ rupture, and halitosis. Note that you'd have to drink a heap of Sunset Sarsaparilla to match the quantities used in the study. How much, you ask? A lot. A whole helluva lot. In fact, you'd have to get full as a tick on Sunset Sarsaparilla to even come close. Anyway, thanks for stopping by, partner! And keep drinking Sunset Sarsaparilla!"(Festus' dialogue)
* Vault-Tec Channel 9
* Channel 314:File:FO4 Silver Shroud poster radio (1).png
==Print==
Print media covers a wide field of physical publications ranging from novels, autobiographies, and textbooks to comics, trade magazines, and tabloids.
===Periodicals===
===Books===
* Big Book of Science
* First Aid Book
* DCTA Employee Handbook
* Paradise Lost - John Milton
* Commentarii de Bello Gallico - Gaius Julius Caesar
* The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
* The Lavender Flower - Dorothy Rixon
* Laser Pistol User's Manual
* Encyclopedia Atomica, Volume VIII, Radiology-Saskatchewan
* Pretty Pretty Horsies: A History of the Mongol Empire
* Tiny, Tiny Babies: All You Need to Know About Pediatric Medicine
* Stress and the Modern Refugee: A Primer
* - Dick HubbellHubologist teachings
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* Jones' character description: "{102}{}{You see a short man with a book called "So, You Want to be a Doctor."}"(Jones' dialogue)
* - Mary Shelley"Frankenstein" is used as a common derogatory term to refer to super mutants in Fallout 3 and Fallout 76.
* Reading list
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* - Dr. Clara Song, PhDClara Song: "Welcome to the RobCo Research Center, where we do things little children definitely don't need to know about! I, the eminent Dr. Clara Song, PhD, will be your guide. Dr. Song? You mean the award-winning researcher? The author of The Robotics of Then and Now? She's our tour guide?	 Now off we go! Meet me at the first tour stop and maybe try to learn something for once."(Clara Song's dialogue)
* - Garrison Foggarty (unpublished)C.H. Monthly, August
* - Dr. Bryce JayhartWard's journal
* - Henry David Thoreau
* The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe
* War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
===Pamphlets===
* The Armageddon Rag
* Holy water pamphlet
* The New Plague and YOU! - 2059Disaster relief outpost terminal entries; terminal, New Plague Public Information
==Posters==
Posters are intended to be eyecatching and to convey information. They are often used to advertise a product or service, or by political parties and protestors as a form of propaganda. They are found commonly in the wastelands, usually pasted on walls, above or near roadways, or inside of buildings. They are often used as propaganda and advertisements. 
==Games==
Forms of play or sport to pass the time, competitive and cooperative, physical and digital, played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck.
==Behind the scenes==
* In the Fallout setting, pop culture seemed to stagnate in the mid-twentieth century and did not significantly progress via counterculture until the world ended a century later.Pre-War music was almost universally produced around the middle of the twentieth century and was effectively a century old when the Great War occurred. Additionally, consumer aesthetics, political rhetoric, and the general American lifestyle appear much closer to mid-twentieth century America than modern times. Some small countercultural movements like hippies existed,Third Street Municipal Building terminal entriesSunshine Tidings co-op terminal entries but had little impact on the dominant mass-media culture of America.
* In a terminal entry at the Charleston Capitol Building, a pre-War man named Jamison deployed a vertical emoticon: "=^..^=".Charleston Capitol Building terminal entries#Donuts in the lounge This may imply the existence of furry culture and some kind of usenet culture or zine culture in the Fallout setting.
** Correspondingly, Vault-Tec is said to have managed to patent the thumbs-up emoji.Fallout - A Special LIVE Report from Galaxy News
==References==
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