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Defending Freud (side B)

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Is Slavoy a Racist?

"I'm always beholden to the reading that provokes the most amount of questions or is the most interesting," he says. "There's a thread of argument in television studies that starts with popular criticism and then it begins, I probably formally with Marshall McLuhan." TV has been able to avoid this like oh it's just, it's just a money grab,. The whole medium is for money grabbing film and been able toavoid it historically and television hasn't. Because maybe it's more present. It's really fascinating to me because there's commercials, right? You can't separate the text from the commercial text".

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