Television has become a mirror
March 22, 2008
“Television has become a mirror in which the public likes to recognize itself,” Pivot said. “The public either likes to see itself, or it likes something very far away, exoticism. Culture is neither of those.” Even when programs feature “popular” culture, rap musicians from the Paris suburbs, for example, the emphasis is not so much on what they perform as on how they got there, Pivot says, how they “made” it, so that the viewer can relate and dream how he might “make” it and be a celebrity too.
http://www.iht.com/articles/1998/04/02/pivot.t.php
A Cultural Icon Slams the Poverty of French TV
By Katherine Knorr
Published: THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1998
Entry Filed under: Art, Idea, Media, Philosophy, Story, TV. .
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