Table of Contents

Campaign Commercials; 1984—The Commercial; Television Ceremonial Events; Huxley on Television; Real Police on Television Supercops; Cultural Bias in “M*A*S*H”; The Politics of “Lou Grant”; Sagan's Metaphysical Parable; Decoding “Dallas”: Comparing American and German Viewers; Violence and Aggression; Researching Television Violence; Defending the Indefensible; Smoking Out the Critics; Proliferating Violence; Networks Hold The Line; Assessing Academic Achievement; Facts, Fantasies and Schools; Reading Performance; Dubious Facts and Real Schools; Mass Media Values; Television: Mass Communication and Elite Controls; Fantasy and Culture on Television; Direct-Broadcast Satellites and Cultural Integrity; Free Press for a Free People; Screening Nuclear War and Vietnam; Coming to Terms with Television: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography

About the Author

Berger, Arthur Asa