Class 8 Mills, C. Wright, "The Power Elite"

For communications studies: When you have a power elite with enormous power and control with interlocking members and elaborate and complex nexus of power. There is an efficient corrallity between the political and entertainment industry. What about the rest of the people and mass society? What has happened to democracy (Dewey 1920, Mills 1956)? The television reflected an idealized society. The notion and question of the public sphere. Television is in it’s infancy. As we have multiplied our capacity to broadcast and communicate, have we recaptured some capacity to have a public sphere where collaborative action can influence change?