TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mander,Jerry
TI  - Four arguments for the elimination of television
SN  - 0688032745
AV  - HE8700.8 M272F
PY  - 1978///
CY  - New York
PB  - Morrow
KW  - Television broadcasting
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Television
KW  - Psychological aspects
N1  - Bibliography: p. 363-371; Introduction. The belly of the beast ; War to control the unity machine -- The mediation of experience. The walling of awareness ; Expropriation of knowledge ; Adrift in mental space -- The colonization of experience. Advertising : the standard-gauge railway ; The centralization of control -- Effects of television on the human being. Anecdotal reports : sick, crazy, mesmerized ; The ingestion of artificial light ; How television dims the mind ; How we turn into our images ; The replacement of human images by television -- The inherent biases of television. Information loss ; Images disconnected from source ; Artificial unusualness ; The pieces that fall through the filter -- Impossible thoughts. Television taboo
N2  - Depicts television as a technological monster, a menace to the psychology of the individual and to the environment, and an instrument of unprecedented autorcratic power
ER  -