Is television America’s newest form of schizophrena?

The most striking example of how the world depicted on television and the real world differ is the fact that if you were an alien judging America by watching television, you would logically believe that blacks are at least 50 percent of the U.S. population.

In fact, they are only 13 percent.

I point this out not to complain that blacks are overrepresented. After all, they were virtually invisible on TV for most of the past. No, my point is simply that television, in both its entertainment and its advertising — perhaps out of a passion for political correctness — overrepresents the presence of blacks. I’m still looking in vain in the real world for one of those groups of affluent black and white people having the gay old time one often sees in the television commercials.

Our society has fewer blacks and is still far more segregated than you would ever guess from how the world is depicted on television. My experience in the workplace was that while there were cordial relations at work, at the end of the day white and black employees went their separate ways and didn’t see each other until work the next day.

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Is television America’s newest form of schizophrena?
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