We are a nation in denial, a nation of brooding silences. TV-oriented media is silence institutionalized. They are no longer the solution but part of the problem. CEM is the brainchild of George Gerbner, Dean Emeritus of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. No longer home and community.
Alternative perspectives vanish from the mainstream.
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