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American Values | The Media Are Unfairly Criticized

Danny Goldberg maintains in the following viewpoint that the amount of violent or sexual behavior portrayed by the media is vastly overstated by elite critics who view all forms of popular entertainment as “poison.” In reality, contends Goldberg, media entertainment varies widely in quality and should be evaluated on an individual basis. Goldberg is the Chairman and CEO of the Mercury Record Group and the copublisher of Tikkun magazine.

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1. According to Goldberg, what is the “message theory” of entertainment, and why is this...

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