"Media/Society" by D. Croteau and H. Hoynes

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"We are all looking for a way to define ourselves, a way to understand who it is that we are in the world. Often, we try to create identities for ourselves by looking at the ways in which we are different from other people.

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"We are all looking for a way to define ourselves, a way to understand who it is that we are in the world. Often, we try to create identities for ourselves by looking at the ways in which we are different from other people. We lay blame for the fact that children kill other children on the shows that they watch and we blame the moral decline of our leaders on the shows that they watch and we blame the growing obesity of Americans on the shows that they watch and we blame hate crimes on the shows that the bigots watch.


What we generally fail to do in all of this rush to lay blame is to stop to remember that They are We that the media are not something external to our society, but something integral to it, something more reflective of culture than capable of..."

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