Within a market-oriented neolib-eral context, differences of race and ethnicity are shorn from a history of political struggle and recast in the language of “already achieved” equality, consumption and individual choice.
What does it mean by "shorn form a political struggle" in this sentence?
Reality television, he observes, has been the “most extensive mechanism for this renewed inter-est in the ordinary, with its omnivorous appetite for new ‘talent’ and its extraordinary appeal for those wishing to make the transition from being an ordinary person to a media person
I think this process is based on the characterize system of the reality show. The ordinary people are designed by the producer and in order to represent the effect that they want.
TLC is explicitly branded as a cable channel for program-ming about “different” people not usually afforded media representation
In my opinion, all the media products are reflection to a particular subculture group or reflect a certain idea of their producers.
In addition, changes in federal tax laws eliminated producers' investment tax credits, which often meant the difference be-tween earning a profit and taking a loss on a program.
It is interesting to know the profit system of reality shows. There are several steps in the profit process.
Reality series can be developed more quickly than fictional programs partly because they do not rely on lining up talent and writers
In my opinion, reality TV shows nowadays are similar to fictional programs. All the lines and plots are arranged before taking. That's why reality shows are more and more not "real".
This term stresses television's particular reasons for embracing reality shows
Media industry, in deed is based on profit. Sometimes, it is hard to make decision between news or something people interested in.
Almost overnight, it seemed, top news executives in New York sud-denly forgot how to judge or value importaut news.
It is a serious problem that the news value is ambiguous. Sometimes people care more about the entertainment news than some real problems.
And far more important is this simple fact: the less real news they supply, the fewer choices the pub-lic will have, and the more effective their bias will be
I think the public opinion is controlled by the dominate media so the main idea of these distributors control the mainstream ideology among people in particular era.
The news helped fulfill the requirements of the f:ederal Communications Commission that, in return for free use of the airwaves, televi-sion stations should air programs providing a public service.
This part represents the transition of the news industry. It seems like it moved from "the content is king" to "the profit is king".
That strongly sug-gests that we cannot look to the industry to change itself from within. The public must get involved and make demands
I agree with that. The fully self-regulation is barely exist in any industry. As a result, we must rely on the mass power to regulate.
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I believe that the economic necessities is an key element which can influence the aesthetic value.
Bubbles performs the fictional function of the typical Dickensian un-derclass character, which is not only to make us love him despite his foiblesbut to connect the different strata of serially unfolding multiple socialworlds via his movement through them.
In a multisited ethnography series, how to shape the image of the characters is a key question to the writer. The image of Bubble engaged in the thoughts of the audience and it raise and connect the social ideology in this series as well.
Both of Simon’s long books employ the basic methodologies of ethnog-raphy: a long-term—one-year—stay in a field where a particular set ofsocial relations can observed by an outsider who follows selected individ-uals in their work and daily lives.
This method is a good way to gather information and dig deeper into the case in order to enhance the reality of the series.
he result of such bonding and identification is to grant the Huxtables a privileged place in viewers' lives in terms of how viewers saw themselves. Many viewers remarked that the Huxtables reminded them of their own families so that watching the show is like 'holding up a mirror to a pleasant time gone by. We are watching our own past with more than a hint of nostalgia
I believe the reason of the popularity of the show is because it connect the audience's real life to the connect they created thus to make the audience get more involved in the content.
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As a powerful media platform, television can contain enormous ideology and this can influence the audience's though in a imperceptible way.
The United States is still emerging from a system of apartheid. Even if legal and political inequalities are finally disappearing, economic barriers remain.
I believe the progress of obtain an equal world is to show the real problem in the real life and The Cosby Show is a pioneer in the television industry.
The network's desire to remove such a meek symbol of black resistance from the airwaves demonstrates what progressive voices on prime-time television are up against.
It reflects the racial issue is still exist in the mainstream television market.