I’m breaking my long hiatus just to express some outrage. The following garbage is a scan from John Vivian’s The Media of Mass Communication (pg. 155, Tenth Edition), a textbook costing $100+, used at Ithaca College (the school I attend) and elsewhere.
The whole book has that condescending tone, but the misinformation in this passage here is so abominable and inexcusable that the accuracy of anything else Vivian has written is suspect. IC’s faculty should think twice before including any of Vivian’s textbooks as part of their courses in the future.
