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From: ix200@sdcc6.UUCP (Bruce Jones)
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Subject: Re: Hollywood
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 22:56:11 EST
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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