“TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.”
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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
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I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
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What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
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