When talking about television in comparison to the contemporary art movement that Manet led in the nineteenth century, Bourdiue says, "If a vehicle as powerful as television were oriented even slightly toward this kind of symbolic revolution, I can assure you that everyone would be rushing to put a stop to it." (329)
Television is totally structured in ways which it always has been. It is mainly for our viewing pleasure, yet sometimes has programs which inspire us to do ore with our lives. Journalists have the control to make us think in certain ways. If you are watching the nightly news and Katie Couric tells you that we should all put our money into Mac Computers because PC's are going down the toilet, I'll bet you at least half of her audience will do so.
Audience rating are a big part of television programming. If a TV show has a horrible rating, it will be off the air within 2 weeks. How do the people behind the ideas of these shows know what is going to make it and what idea is not? Well, when one has a news program, the most important thing is to have people know about it. It is important to use all different types of media (newspapers, internet, etc) to publicize the new show. This article reveals the truths about how television is extremely political.
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