Comics and Culture: The Cartoonist as TV Critic
A mother comes into the family room where her son is watching a noisy action/adventure show with his school books…
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Throughout this issue we address the media’s mandate to provide meaningful political discourse, an abstract phrase that we struggle to…
Making Politics Work
Roger Ailes, media advisor to presidents Reagan and Bush, once told a reporter: “You get up every morning and try…
Brave New World: Rediscovering Democratic Media
Frances Moore Lappé, longtime social philosopher and author of the pioneering study of food resources, Diet for a Small Planet,…
‘America’s Wish Book’ Sells Dreams
Printed and dispersed widely in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, advertisements provided a vehicle by which urban life…
How TV Works
In television most programs are produced by independent production companies who then sell their product to the networks. The networks…
Pictures in the Parlor
If traditional culture defined a world where only the wealthy had access to beautiful color pictures–oil paintings–the proliferation of advertising…
Television and Consumption
Television has the connotation of plenitude; it seems to embody consumer society as a whole. In many households, a television…
Power of Images: Creating the Myths of Our Time
We see them everywhere: on billboards, in magazines, on bus placards. They come in the mail and in our Sunday…
Rise of the Image Culture
Like most middle-class children of the 50s, I grew up looking for the American Dream. In those days there were…