The networks have historically dominated American television. American television is now deserting the traditional values that have been a staple from its emergence through approximately the mid-eighties. Television is not only deserting the networks but is also deserting the instructive and useful purposes of the past. Many television shows such as Cheers, The Simpsons, and Seinfeld break from past sitcoms in their ability to lack sentiment and instruction and be purely comic. There has been controversy about excessive violence, the manipulation of children, and issues like sexual promiscuity on television.
Television is a goddamned amusement park, that s what television is.
Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and storytellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. The bibliography faces the problem of not being focused on a specific genre of television. The only appropriate categories seem to be according to the papers they were applied. The common methods used in the cultural study of television include history, semiotics, and philosophical. M. Thomas Inge.