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What Did Media Critic Herbert Schiller Mean When He Said

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What did media critic Herbert Schiller mean when he said, in 1991, that American television is a "cultural bomb"?


A) American TV is particularly risqué and sexually offensive.
B) American television programming shows the worst excesses of American culture, not Americans as they really are, which creates stereotypes of Americans.
C) American media is particularly violent, but because the U.S. is far more violent that most other nations, American viewers do not notice it.
D) American programming, once introduced to a local culture, replaces programming that tells local stories and uses art forms familiar to that culture.

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