Word: massmedia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THAT most Americans find their service stations open again at night and on weekends, public interest in the world energy situation has dwindled to self-centered nostalgia for the days of cheap energy and Sunday drives. Meanwhile, massmedia editors and anchormen have chosen to ignore an impending world famine that Notre Dame's President' Theodore Hesburgh says is going to "make the energy crisis look like a picnic." Very few Americans realize that their continued consumption of a disproportionate share of the world's energy spells starvation for millions of people in the Third World. Oil, coal...
Meanwhile the rest of America goes homeless. Revel neglects the plurality that elected Nixon president. In Revel's context Spiro Agnew is kept busy fighting a rear guard action against the massmedia. The compulsion to split the country neatly into left and right also ignores the middle class and its love of the status quo. American is not, as he says, "composed of two antagonistic camps of approximately equal size." The nation holds a spectrum of ideologies. Even a division into three parts would be more valid...
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