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Article: Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited.
- Article from:
- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
- Author:
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Despite Volleys of Utopian Rhetoric (a force for education, understanding, world peace!) and a steady undercurrent of disapproving murmurs (that vast wasteland, that plug-in drug), television over its first half-century has established itself as a commercial medium, entertainment-oriented and advertiser-directed. Given television's centrality to our popular culture, criticizing it is enormously difficult. After all, critics are told, it's not brain surgery. Turn it off if you don't like it. What did you want instead 95 channels of Wayne's World? C-SPAN? The Frugal Gourmet? And if criticism is hard, producing real alternatives to TV's status quo is that much harder.
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