In preparation for James Corbett’s upcoming course on The History of the Media, The Corbett Report Subscriber is presenting a three-part series on the past, present and future of mass media. Last week we examined How the First Media Moguls Shaped History. This week we examine the history of psychological research into mass media’s effects on the public mind and explore the particular properties of the television set that render its audience susceptible to its lies.
You can tell a lot about an item by the nicknames we give it. So what do our nicknames for the television tell us about that device?
“The idiot box.”
“The boob tube.”
“The tell-lie-vision.”
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https://www.corbettreport.com/the-idiot-box-how-tv-hypnotizes-you/
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