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 …

…who could be brother for all any outsider knows. Television is a powerful medium, and it needs to be used with care. As long as there are people who want to come to America they will watch American shows and conclude that America really is like FRIENDS, or ER, or NYPD BLUE. The sum of these shows does not equal what America really is. Added up, these six hours of television barely scratch the surface.