Ebook {Epub PDF} Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander

 · Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television - Kindle edition by Mander, Jerry. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television - Kindle. ― Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television tags: advertising, control, mass-media, social-influence 5 likesCited by: The third argument concerns the effects of television upon individual human bodies and minds, effects which fit the purposes of the people who control the medium. The fourth argument demonstrates that television has no democratic potential. The technology itself .

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television () is a book written by Jerry Mander which argues that there are a number of problems with the medium of te. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. By Jerry Mander. New York: William Morrow, pages. $ - Volume 6 Issue 1. Four arguments for the elimination of television Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Four arguments for the elimination of television by Jerry Mander. Publication date Topics Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States., Television broadcasting -- Psychological aspects. Publisher.

The third argument concerns the effects of television upon individual human bodies and minds, effects which fit the purposes of the people who control the medium. The fourth argument demonstrates that television has no democratic potential. The technology itself places absolute limits on what may pass through it. Mander frequently cites the inferiority of television’s image quality and the necessity of prosaic, dull programming that can conform to television’s poor standards. His ideological bent and optimistic sensibility also seems a little outdated, a little naive - though it is admirable, he expresses enviornmentalism as common sense the future Mander imagines is not nearly so bright. What follows are four fundamental arguments offered in support of eliminating television. Argument 1 – TV conditions us to accept someone else’s authority. Artificial environments deprive us of a direct knowledge of nature. Our knowledge is limited to the created environment, and so we know only what we are told by “the creator” of that.