> Business & Culture > Culture > The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What It Is Doing to Our Lives The claims made for television when it was a fledgling industry in the early 1950s have virtually all proven false. TV was to be the great entertainer-educator, an electronic marvel that would, over time, elevate viewers' tastes and sensibilities. As we now know, the need for entertainment dominates, and everything has been reduced to simple and slick images. Now the authors address this most pressing of social issues.
Author Ian I. Mitroff Publisher Oxford University Press, USA Publication Date 1993-05-27 Binding Paperback ISBN 0195083989 Number Of Pages 256 Sales Rank 1030741
