Framing Class...

I agree with much of what Diana Kendall wrote in "Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption", but I think it is only applicable to certain groups of people. Kendall claims American's are overly influenced by the media. To some extent I agree. There are a lot of ways in which the media influences us. I don't agree with Kendall to the extent we are influenced by the media. There are some people out there who may get their ideas about social classes and what products they should purchase or consume soley from the media. I think most, however, get those ideas from the people around them and their real life experiences more than from the media alone. People might view what happens in the media through their own looking glass and be swayed, but it is not nessessarily the media's fault. I think the biggest problem with media in America is that American's spend way to much time watching, absorbing and being entertained by it. As a society we are forgetting how to spend and enjoy time with eachother and with ourselves and that is a problem.