Excellent essay on commercialism in our society - Television is populated with images which are superficial and lack depth. Programs look more like ads and ads look more like programs. All this leads to a close circle of consumerism. The three excerpts relate to these unifying ideas thus the validity of their argument.                  'Surface is all; what you see is what you get. These images are proud of their standing as images. They suggest that …showed first 75 words of 1549 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1549 total…our lives. For instance, if a child has a He- Man sword he too will have the ' Power of Grayskull.' These images try to place the product's image onto the image of this transformation and eventually lead to a purchase. (16).         ' If we want a different set of images on the screen, we'll have to produce not just better plots, but a different production system with different goals in a different world.' (17).