>critics of bourdieu say he never really managed to understand television.
How's that? I liked his TV book <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Why_TV_sucks.html>, and I thought it showed a great understanding of TV. And his analysis of why commercial broadcasting is so bad - that it's more a function of profit and audience maximization than concentration of ownership - is much more accurate and compelling than the barely shallow Mark Crispin Miller's <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/MCMillerQueen.mp3>.
Doug