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| | Korean War Conference Papers |
 | | Television is also an activity outside of and independent of the programs, such that one can decide to spend the evening watching television without having any specific program in mind. |
 | | Access to that plenitude, moreover, rendered television invaluable to citizenship, for, as the word "participation" implied, television was being imagined as an instrument of participatory democracy, allowing citizenship, undaunted by distance, unobstructed by topography, untainted by rhetorical manipulation. |
 | | Television could thus function as the site of "democracy" to the extent that "democracy"--representing what the most people had in common—was defined in opposition to "idiosyncrasy." Broadcasting nationalized the common person in every way that his or her values were common rather than unique, cliched rather than original, status quo rather than progressive. |
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