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dilettantism now, where they think that after
ignoring media for thirty years they can suddenly
turn on the TV or go to a Madonna concert, and
suddenly they’re experts in media. Well, mass
media is as deserving of a full scholarly analysis
and absorption as any other discipline in the
history of mankind. And those of us who have kept
the faith right from the start—I have been totally
absorbed in the world of television and movies and
rock music for like, 40 years of my 46 years of life.
I’m just like this walking encyclopedia of it. I was
cleaving to it at a time when, in the late ‘60s—at
Yale Graduate School—when it certainly cost me. It
certainly cost me a lot in my career. But anyone