Posted on 09/05/2023 7:49:02 PM PDT by usconservative
Is there a MUG shot of this individual that we can see?
Mentally Ill Alphabet People need a good safe place to live, far away from society.
The Democrats have been very honest about their dogmatic support for sexual deviancy, it's their equally insatiable appetite for wealth and power which is hidden ...
It's for the center spot on Patrick's "special wall."
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Back in the days when some universities still taught classical journalism, an eminent scholar of communications, George Gerbner (1919 - 2005) was Dean of the Annenberg School of Communications at University of Pennsylvania from 1964 to 1989 (coincidentally, he was there when Donald J. Trump was at the Wharton School on campus).
Although UPenn has in recent years taken a hard left turn, Gerbner was a Hungarian Jew who had fled the Nazis; he became a U.S. citizen and enlisted in the Army duing WW2, working in intelligence. After the war, he made it his goal to study the effects of mass communications objectively, and began teaching in several California universities, associated with the so-called Progressive Citizens of America party, and was called to testify before the California HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) that was investigating communist influences.
He arrived on the east coast in the 50s to teach and research in several of the top universities in Philadelphia. During his long tenure at UPenn, he became one of the most highly regarded theoretical communications experts in the U.S.
Towards the end of his active career, he caused a great stir in media circles after a "copycat" crime -- it may have been the “Son of Sam” killings, I don't recall precisely; however, because his painstaking statistical research indicated that negative or criminal acts in television programming inspired and contributed to a general fear in the population, he opined that violence in popular media was a coarsening influence on American culture.
After a lifetime of postive renown in the liberal university and media worlds, suddenly he was controversial and openly denounced by the media, who counterintuitively insisted that their programming had no influence on people's free choice of behaviors. Media bigwigs took no responsibility for the negative influence on youth and children of viewing multiple acts of violence for hours every week, even in slapstick cartoons and children's programming.
Wikipedia writes that George Gerbner testified before Congress in 1981 about the effects of American mass communications:
“The most general and prevalent association with television viewing is a heightened sense of living in a 'mean world' of violence and danger. Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures.... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities. That is the deeper problem of violence-laden television.”
“That’s Sheriff Labat! How do I know? I’d recognize that asshole anywhere!”
It had both a negative and positive effect. You cited the negative aspects. The positive effect (for awhile at least, until the advent of cable tv and internet) is that we all generally had the same shared cultural experiences via the tv that bridged the racial and economic divides. That did have a unifying effect until entertainment split into a thousand or million pieces. Now, just one single family could be watching completely different things and as a result, not be able to relate to one another. A positive morphing into a negative here.
YMCA
I'd hate to be the guy who had to pore over thousands of hours of grainy, gritty homo-films, looking to see if any of the "actors" resembled a county sheriff.
Regards,
Huh?
From which "eon?"
Regards,
I won’t click on a gay link but I’d believe it.
I never gave this much thought, but as I have gotten older, I think television is poison to weak minds.
Huh, a sexual deviate, how about that.
Maybe Obama will be in the next one
Yes, the mass media is a big factor. With almost limitless access to anything on there, we’re all assaulted by temptations.
You are so right. There was a time when most families watched Lassie and adults watched Johnny Carson. The addition of cable and multiple channels came after Gerbner was writing. At first the glut of channels was great for people with a variety of interests, like home&garden, cooking, travel, etc. But it is the trash it makes available and the 24/7/365 array of hundreds of channels that have polluted a good thing.
Yes; research has shown that visual imagery “imprints” the mind much more than words on paper. Accompany this by sounds and vibrations, and it’s like fentanyl compared to nursery rhymes.
Somebody ran a thread on here years ago challenging people to list all the advertising jingles or slogans they remember, and the list went to hundreds. But ask anyone to list the last 15 U.S. presidents, the 50 states, the Ten Commandments or the Bill of Rights, and few would be able to bring them all to mind.
This shouldn't make me laugh, but it does...
So a comms scholar who escaped Nazism and had a first-hand view of its rise through mass comms and propaganda spoke out from actual research instead of ideology about the harms of broadcast violence, and is no longer around to decry the above development.
Thats when they all had thigh to thigh carpeting
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