you depended on this premise when arguing for feminist etc. TV programming re: Lisa being a punching bag on the Simpsons. We do not forgive. We do not forget.
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A heightened awareness of TV's bad influences makes absolutely no difference to the viewer. TV has even protected itself against this new consumer awareness by blanketing everything with a nudge-nudge wink-wink irony about its own trashiness. Now the viewer is given a false sense
of being "above it" even though she continues to watch and absorb from a supposed ironic distance. There is no way to avoid the influential effects of television save for switching it off
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DFW does a much better job of explaining this idea than me in E Unibus Pluram https://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf
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