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Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

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Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

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Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

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American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

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The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

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The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.

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As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.

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My business is the analytical framework.

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Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

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I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: Unknown

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