PPT Slide
“Television, in nearly all its forms and functions, and for both economic and structural reasons, acts as a simplying lens, filtering out complex ideas in favor of blunt emotional messages that appeal to the self and to narrower moral-political impulses.
“For reasons that are inherent in the nature of ideology and do not impugn the politics of the left or right, simplication promotes, and epitomizes, political conservatism. Indeed, simplicity and complexity are the basic polar organizing principles of the political spectrum.” Jeffrey Scheuer, The Sound Bite Society: Television and the American Mind, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999.