Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

Famous Quotes / Wright C. Mills

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Wright C. Mills: "Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions."

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Aims	Another	Appeal	Comic
Commercial	Common	Cultural	Denominator
Emotions	Equal	Everyone	Fiction
Images	Incidence	Itself	Jazz
Kind	Machines	Mannerisms	Mass
Masses	Media	Movies	Nearly
Opera	Prescheduled	Pulp	Scheme
Soap	Standards	Strips	Technology
These	Universal	Urban

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Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions. - Wright C. Mills