Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
 

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

by Jerry Mander

A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous -- to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes -- that TV ought to be eliminated forever.

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Jerry Mander (interesting name) is correct. This, book written in the 1970s, forcasted the right wing take-over television. Mander states that televisin can not be a left-wing medium only a right-wing one. Now that the PR firm of Fox 'News" has dominated political dialogue it is easy to see.

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