What Did Media Critic Herbert Schiller Mean When He Said

question 41

Multiple Choice

What did media critic Herbert Schiller mean when he said, in 1991, that American television is a "cultural bomb"?

• A) American TV is particularly risqué and sexually offensive.
• B) American television programming shows the worst excesses of American culture, not Americans as they really are, which creates stereotypes of Americans.
• C) American media is particularly violent, but because the U.S. is far more violent that most other nations, American viewers do not notice it.
• D) American programming, once introduced to a local culture, replaces programming that tells local stories and uses art forms familiar to that culture.

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