The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. which is another issue altogether.
...televison is different because it encompasses all forms of discourse. No one goes to a movie to find out about government policy or the latest scientific advances...But everyone goes to a television set for all these things and more, which is why televisioon resonates so powerfully through the culture. Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself...
...For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that stage is located in Las Vegas...
p89, 94-95
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