The Fundamental Criticism Directed Against the New Popular Mass Media

question 80

Multiple Choice

The fundamental criticism directed against the new popular mass media culture in the 1950s,by such social critics as David Riesman and William H.Whyte,Jr.,was that

• A) affluence tended to erode Americans' moral character.
• B) Americans had become affluent conformists unable to think for themselves.
• C) the wealth produced by the new mass economy was unevenly distributed.
• D) the open sexual displays of figures like Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe were morally dangerous.
• E) Americans were becoming too soft to be able to fight the Cold War effectively.

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