I just walked into my media center (!), turned on the tv and saw Don Rickles dressed in a wide-brimmed black southwestern-style Native American hat with fake black hair and long braids in an indescribable woody interior store decorated garishly with Native American clothing and "war bonnets". A few scenes later, Betty White made reference to having lived on a reservation, delivering veiled innuendo about "wild horses".
I can only imagine what cultural madness led up to these strange televisual moments on the TV Land original sitcom, "Hot In Cleveland".
The primary focus of cultural media literacy is to illuminate the function of communications media and its technologies, its narratives and use with regard to people, society, what we do, how we think and what we think about, how we treat each other and the natural world in which we live. Media for media's sake is meaningless. Media for society's sake is a progressive and necessary endeavor.

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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