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Chaos Reigns |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Michael Medved's Hollywood vs. America |
| Author: Stanley Rothman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 3,673 Words, 22,199 Characters |
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Vice President Quayle's criticism of the television show Murphy Brown set off a storm of public controversy about the impact of television and motion pictures on the American people. However, the debate over that impact, its nature and sources, has been going on for some time at a much lower key, dividing people into several camps. Michael Medved's fine study, Hollywood vs. America, is a new contribution to the debate, one that has the good (or perhaps bad) fortune to be appearing at a time when the issues have become politicized.
The outcome of Quayle's criticisms of prime-time television adds weight to Medved's book but also, as we shall see, a certain poignancy. In any event, understanding Medved's argument requires that it be placed within the framework of the debate of which the...
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...or the downside of Hollywood's impact on American life will not be effective. It is much too late.
What emerges from the current chaos may, in the long run, produce a better world than the one in which I grew up. But even if the changes turnout for the best, that probably will occur only after a period of increased disorder and violence in our society, one likely to be quite unpleasant.
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