'I'm ashamed to admit it but I have watched Dallas': the moral hierarchy of television programmes
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There is a moral hierarchy of TV viewing, as revealed by a study of TV viewers in Finland. Shows with redeeming social value such as news are not justified by viewers, yet shows with lesser obvious redeeming social value, such as soap operas, are explicitly justified in the conversations of viewers. However, single women living alone do not justify watching soap operas, indicative of less defensiveness when men are not present.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 1992
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Television Marti: electronic invasion in the post-Cold War
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TV Marti represents American imperialism against Cuba in a post-Cold War age. The US Information Agency broadcasts TV entertainment into Cuba without Cuban permission, breaking international law and Cuba's national sovereignty. The broadcasting is an electronic form of the maintenance of American hegemony in the western hemisphere while continuing the traditional US relation with communist Cuba of opposition in a Cold War.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 1992
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College basketball on television: a study of racism in the media
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The media promotes racism with its selection of commercials for broadcast during college basketball games. Of 550 ads during 12 games, 374 used whites for leading personality images, 70 had neutral images, 54 had minor black images and 52 had blacks as leading images. The negative stereotype of blacks as only good for athletics is reinforced.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 1992
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