Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcc6.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc6!ix200 From: ix200@sdcc6.UUCP (Bruce Jones) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Hollywood Message-ID: <1863@sdcc6.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 22:56:11 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc6.1863 Posted: Mon Jan 14 22:56:11 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:16:15 EST References: <4166@ucbvax.ARPA> Reply-To: ix200@sdcc6.UUCP (Bruce Jones) Distribution: net Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center Lines: 29 Summary: In article <4166@ucbvax.ARPA> allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck) writes: >Is this healthy, even if the characterizations are "good"? I don't think that television, in particular, is a good influence on relationships because all of those that are protrayed come to neat, tidy conclusions, setting up expectations in the viewer. Few, if any of the relationships in my own life have been so tidily concluded. (The only one that comes to mind is my marriage, five years defunct, and a former wife who refuses to talk to me.) >Have any of you felt that you were being overly influenced by the media? Yes. Advertising in the media has the express purpose of creating dissatifaction in poeple's lives in order to keep them coming back for more. If you buy into one of their ideas, "blondes have more fun" for instance, you are setting yourself up for some major disapointment when your life fails to be magically transformed by their products. >Is the media effective in negatively reinforcing "bad" relationships? I think I'll come back to this one when the discussion develops further. Bruce "I have just begun to consider the possibitities of the next disaster" Jones