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Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a great...more

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Watch a man--say, a politician--being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstration of what both he and his interrogators learned in...more

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Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. ...more

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Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even a hint that learning is...more

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Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of discourse in it's boldest and most embarrassing f...more

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In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite d...more

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The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we must...more

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Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositio...more

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Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries ...more

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The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

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Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than changes in our...more

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I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of d...more

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How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to alter your plans for ...more

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Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, w...more

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In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon...more