I pick up the PWW of the CPUSA every week (along w/ the Workers Vanguard!). Just checked their archiv http://www.pww.org/ but, the kultur article I remember from a few weeks ago does not seem to be included. Anyway, in an interview with a left cartoonist it was remrked that The Nation and other left pubs have a, "anti-visualist, " drab aproach to agit-prop.
Nathan>...the rightwing hates the liberal cultural message of daytime television.
See, http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/280640.html An interview and excerpt from Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity by Joshua Gamson.
And, http://www.jscheuer.com/dissent.htm "The Sound Bite Society, " http://www.thesoundbitesociety.com/ "This is a thoughtful, in many ways amazing book. I thought it was impossible to say anything new about how to think about television until I read Jeffrey Scheuer's provocative meditation. Part polemic, part brief for an intriguing thesis about media and the left (that I'm not sure I buy) and part rainbow of dazzling insights, no student of the media can afford not to read this book and no serious watcher of television will want to miss it."
Victor Navasky, Publisher and Editorial Director, The Nation Michael Pugliese