ginger griffin, bourdieu

"Our news anchors, our talk show hosts, and our sports announcers have turned into two-bit spiritual guides, representatives of middle class morality. They are always telling us what we 'should think' about what they call 'social problems...'" (329) I feel like this is a topic that will never go away. Television has the power to have a large mass audience usually with the same view points. Tv is powerful because it reaches new levels of audience reception than any other media out there. I feel that this is a main topic discussed in CMC and that it will continue to be talked about for a very long time. Tv has the power to take a mass audience and turn them into robots, making them all think the same thing, "Television's power of diffusion means that it poses a terrible problem for the print media and for culture generally." (328) This relates directly to Horkheimer and Adorno when they state, "Culture today is infecting everything with sameness." Their main idea was that nothing is original and that everything is all the same, television just reinforces this idea by mass producing the same thing everyday to the same audience. Television is not always a bad thing, though, because it has the ability to get news out quickly in the case of an emergency. If you relied on other forms of media, such as the newspapers, then you might not be able to avert the tragic situation. Television is like the devil sitting on your right shoulder and the angel sitting on your left. It has the power to be a good thing but more often than not it will led you down a dark and scary path, that path being infected with sameness.