CMNS 110 Chapter Notes -Neil Postman, Mark Kingwell, Connotation
24 Mar 2013
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Fear and self-loathing in couchland: eight myths about television by. Current state of television: dismal state, suffused with mediocrity, jangling with advertising, numbing in its pointless variety. Irritating and worthless, particularly because of its unbelievable accommodation of advertising. Television is the dominant medium of information and entertainment of the age. This dominance may fade unless we watch and think about it. In truth, technologies come loaded with both intended and unintended social, political, and economic leanings. Programmers, in turn, hollow out their characters, and in tv"s version of a sick co- dependent relationship, they begin to despise themselves for making a career of satisfying someone they despise (the viewer) Self-loathing then becomes an occupational hazard: television is controlled by individuals, television is democratic, television is all junk. like , people want it, you give it to them end of story.
