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seeking answers to certain fundamental and universal questions

New features for this edition include an appendix of Internet sources a state-by-state tables of poverty rates

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Sound Bite Society ESD seeking answers to certain fundamentalIt was once said that all politics is local. But today, all politics is televisual. Candidates spend millions on TV ads. Most people get their news from TV's sound bites. Television doesn't just affect politics it is politics. But how does that mega medium shape our political ideas and values? In THE SOUND BITE SOCIETY, Jeffrey Scheuer argues that the rise of television is directly linked to the decline of the American left and the ascent of the