Not just in America, but globally. Of course subaltern and countercultural forms of media exist. The Media is one of the primary sources of mass cultural production in the modern world. Therefore, a study of the Media provides important raw material for cultural anthropologists since we re attempting to understand culture, how it operates, and how it reproduces and reinvents itself. A study of the Media as we shall see in this film, and as you are expected to do in your current writing assignment provides an important means by which we may better understand our world, its people, and their interactions.
Information accessed via the Media is therefore always a translation of what actually occurred.
Not just in America, but globally.