London, Herbert. “Five Myths of the Television Age.” Television Quarterly 10.1(1982):
81-89. Print. Herbert London, the Dean of Journalism at New York University and author
of several books and articles, argues that television contradicts the idea that ‘seeing is
believing.’ He corroborates his claim using events seen on television, most specifically, the
assassination of John Kennedy. In making this point, Herbert urges us to question other
truisms, such as: “a picture is worth a thousand words”; and ‘satisfaction is its own
reward.” He argues, “Due to the seeming reality brought to us via television newscasts, the
American public needs to be constantly vigilant in assessing the constructed ‘realness’ of
what we see and hear” (85). Herbert’s theory that television shows represent hard work as
a reward in and of itself is extremely useful because it sheds light on the difficulty of the
American Dream as a driving force for our economy, which echoes the section of my
claim about the dangers of a socially constructed class system.
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81-89. Print. Herbert London, the Dean of Journalism at New York University and author
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argues that television contradicts the idea that ‘seeing is believing.’ (See the verb from
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