False Choices

I have encountered the following argument over and over again: “the material that the media chooses to put or focus on is what the people want.”  It’s a very convenient little argument that follows the simple logic of supply-and-demand.  In other...
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Fake TV News

Yesterday at class our instructor said something that was very interesting to me (well, among other things).  He described how nowadays whereas people like me, the viewer, might see commercials as interruptions in the programming, the TV network people probably see the...
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