Christiansen

Christiansen
"Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us"

1.) "Our society's culture industry colonizes their [student's] minds and teaches them how to act, live, and dream"
1. I chose this quote because I thought it was one of the most powerful lines of the whole piece.
2. This quote is saying how children soak up everything that they see in the media or hear on television and learn what their ideals should be based on these things.
3. This line contributes to the article as a whole because it set's up exactly where the author will be going with the piece.

2.) "Young people, unprotected by any intellectual armor, hear or watch these stories again and again, often from the warmth of their mother's of father's lap. The messages, or "secret education," linked with the security of their homes, underscore the power these texts deliver."
1. I chose this quote because I thought that it was a thought provoker. I though that it was interesting there are so many stereotypes that we learn as kids based on the stories that our parents read to us.
2. This quote is explaining how as young people, with no real knowledge to defend ourselves with or any real ability to form an opinion, we are exposed to may literatures that my expose some bad ideas to us.
3. This line is important to the piece as a whole because it kind of opens our eyes to the "dangers" to reading to kids and the things it could expose them to.
3.) "No one wants to admit that they've been "handled" by the media."
1. I chose this quote honestly because I loved it, it's really so true.
2. This quote is explaining a hard truth that none of us ever want to admit, we are all subjects to the media wether we like it or not.
3. This quote is presenting a fact that the author will further explore and this gives the piece a direction to move in.

Overall I did not find that this was a hard piece to read and I actually found it to be pretty interesting. I think that this would be an interesting pice for parents to read so that they might be aware and try to intercept some of what their children get from the media. One question I thought of while reading this article is what might people in the class find that they have come to "believe" or account to media exposure.