1. politics and the media
... a result "an advertising-based media system will gradually increase advertising time and marginalize or eliminate altogether programming that has significant public-affairs content" (Chomsky 17). Television news clearly demonstrates Chomsky's point. News coverage is requested to a time limit, about 45 seconds, thus the message receiver does not obtain adequate information, instead, fascinating pictures that are sentimental are projected ... subtleties conveyed by speech" (Postman 7). Postman postulates that the American people are only concerned with the appealing pictorials elicited b...
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