Richard Hoggart, famous for his writings on literature, education,
and the means of communication, and especially for his influential
book The Uses of Literacy, has written a new work in which he looks
at the ways in which mass communications in the twenty-first
century both encourage and hinder greater understanding of the
modern world. Hoggart takes a number of aspects of mass society
today - celebrity worship, youth culture, broadcasting, and a
decline in the proper use of language - and considers the paradox
that the ready accessibility of information of all types does not
automatically lead to greater comprehension of our world.
Information itself is inert and only leads to knowledge if it has
been ordered and assessed. He assesses the slow but uninterrupted
dissolution of old beliefs, in particular the widespread corruption
of language. He analyses the erosion of the traditional pillars of
authority throughout a century and a half of sustained intellectual
criticism of existing assumptions and beliefs, especially in the
religious sphere. Throughout the book, he examines broadcasting as
the prime disseminator of mass information. truest form, and sees
the Public Service ideal as coming increasingly under attack from
today's BBC broadcasters. People who seem to believe that the
overwhelming function of television today is to entertain.
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