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Essay Archive - Six Hours of Television
Six Hours of Television
In looking at modern television programming there are hundreds of shows
to choose from. Picking six hours of television to analyze from the prospective
of an anthropologist is by no means easy. It is easy however, to talk about
what our nation looks like to others who have never been here. Everyone is
gorgeous, lives happily, and overcomes all problems, but more on that later.
Four hours of the programming I chose is perhaps the most popular programming
this year, consistently topping the Nielsen ratings. For the remaining two
hours of pro....
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