While this is an interesting section, it is incapable of truncation without losing meaning, so I implore all to read this book and explore the data that we all lived, felt, and experienced. Some atrocities you will be familiar with, others you won't. Perhaps the most theoretically and pragmatically interesting observation Kellner makes of television and its interplay with the other various social institutions is that television and democracy may not be capable of co-existing in harmony. One must suffer depredatory acts by the other, and democracy is usually the willing victim. Television, its contents specifically, revolves around a political mimesis.
Commerce overtakes communication, private interests outweigh public interests.
Television is not a democratic art. It is the art of compelling others to listen to a singular strategy in combating the woes of our world. Life is not simple, its problems are not resolved easily. There are give and takes, uneasy alliances, excited cooperation, and sometimes no solutions arise and we have to be happy with lesser goals. If we hinge our political system on the few that control the mediums of communication, we have subjugated ourselves to others and may have laid the course for tyranny.