1. THE EFFECT OF ADVERTISING ON CULTURE
Cable TV has the potential to provide input from local communities, and government sponsored "public" TV does exist, but these forms of TV can be compared to regional dialects existing at the margins: it is commercial TV which sets the standards for the medium. ... "What the spectacle reveals, then, are not only the commercial forces that demand our continual consumption, but these largely unacknowledged facts of American life: the degradation of experience by technology; the demise of public culture in all forms; and the warlike relations between men and women, between blacks and whit...
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