more in theory than in practice, and the reason for this is always that the Constitution and other instruments of government have been designed to do both at the same time, to promote democracy in theory while preventing it in practice.
Douglas Kellner focuses on one element in contemporary U.S. democracy, that of television, one example of the news media that has become pervasive in U.S. culture and that affects political discourse as it does other aspects of social and political life. In so doing, he focuses on the relationships among television, politics, and business. Much of what he demonstrates regarding this medium and its relationship to the larger society agrees with Greenberg. Kellner states: "Studies of the history of television reveal that the broadcast media have been constituted by the twin forces of democracy and capitalism in the United States" (p. 71). He fi
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