People really love slagging-off media studies don't they. My mum was a media studies lecturer when I was growing up. It was incredibly healthy to have someone able to talk critically about what that box in the living room was beaming out.
This idea that it is intelligent to be able to critically appraise what's in novels, but not what's on the TV, is so deranged.
I also had an English teacher who would show us films and then frequently pause them to show how they were made, what they were trying to say, the way lighting and music were trying to make us feel a certain way.
Almost everyone spends a significant part of their life watching the screen and being influenced by it. The idea that it is somehow lazy or intellectually subnormal to care about that, and try to understand it, is properly bizarre.
The only conclusion you can really come to when someone slags off media studies is that they are trying to make up for their own intellectual insecurity.
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