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This 6 page paper examines Bourdieu's On Television and Willis's Learning to Labor. Both works are examined in the context of the topic. The books are compared and contrasted. No additional sources cited.
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being manipulated. He is not offended and realizes that the commercials pay the bills so he can view television at no cost. That said, there are many other things he
may see on television such as the words "fair and balanced" on the Fox news network to convince him that he is seeing objective news reporting. He sees politicians and
sound bites and soldiers who have purportedly acted in a bad way in Iraq. He sees a downed helicopter and other breaking news reports and the culmination of this is
supposed to be objective, but the truth is that news networks are run by money making organizations. Each reporter also has a career to think about. The bottom line is
that society is run by economics. On the other hand, there are conventions within every society. There are classes and structures that make up the various parts of society. There
are the elite and then there are the bottom feeders. Each know who they are. The majority lie somewhere in between. There are many things that define society from artificially
created paradigms that put people in boxes-- this goes along with the theory of social stratification--to the conflict that emerges between the sexes. Then there are other theories that put
all their energy into the idea that the economy drives everything. Bourdieu (1998) makes the point that television media controls a great deal of things. It goes beyond
mere attention to subliminal seduction and the worry that children will be affected. It clearly attacks television as being run by corporate interests and thus has a detrimental psychological affect
on the general public. Indeed, the author has a point. It does seem that everything the public thinks is dictated by what television chooses to report. Just before 9/11, the
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