Newton Minow dubbed this medium a "vast wasteland" in a speech given as chairman of the FCC.
A book on the culture of this form by John Fiske coined the term "semiotic democracy" to describe the "delegation of the production of meanings." Dominant, negotiated, or oppositional readings can be applied to this medium in the encoding/decoding model proposed by Stuart Hall. The market exercises "invisible censorship" on this medium according to a late work by Pierre Bourdieu. Like (*) phone calls and comics, this medium's low definition makes it a "cool" medium in Marshall McLuhan's classification. Newton Minow dubbed this medium a "vast wasteland" in a speech given as chairman of the FCC. For 10 points, Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death critiques what medium for having its programming determined by audience ratings?
A book on the culture of this form by John Fiske coined the term "semiotic democracy" to describe the "delegation of the production of meanings."
television [or TV; prompt on journalism or news]