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Part 2 - TV Reality?TV Reality? looks at how we get information about our world from television. TV has been called a "window to the world," but what kind of frame is around it? Cultural critics Susan Douglas, Stuart Hall, Herman Gray and Sut Jhally join journalists Linda Ellerbee, Ben Bagdikian, and Walter Cronkite as we look at how representation functions, and how the news has changed from being information-driven to being profit-driven. How have consultants affected the local news?Is there a difference between news and entertainment today? Does it matter that many people think Cops is more real than the news? Finally, whose stories are told, and whose are never told? |
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