Sentence examples for populist medium from inspiring English sources
"TV is a populist medium.
People talk about the Internet as a revolutionary populist medium, but the Internet is essentially a marketing tool.
A populist medium judged immediately on ratings, television requires too many shows to win a big audience quickly, resulting, as in mainstream Hollywood, in a reliance on remakes.
Music is by far the largest category, an indication that it has overtaken film as the "most populist medium," he conjectures, or perhaps just further proof that "everyone thinks they can write about music".
This troubled, dynamic relationship between a populist medium and an aggrieved minority population is the subject of "Inside TV Land: African-Americans in Television," a three-part series beginning tonight on the TV Land cable channel.
Inevitably, a populist medium like television invites backlashes with every breakthrough -- even the breakthroughs that seem almost impossibly mundane in retrospect, as when Cicely Tyson unnerved people by wearing her hair in an Afro on "East Side/West Side," a 1963 drama starring George C. Scott as a New York social worker.
In Los Angeles and Miami, groups like N.W.A. and 2 Live Crew were making artful and provocative records — building a vehement case for rap as a reimagining of folk music, a medium for populist unease, distrust, and insurgency — but for most casual American listeners hip-hop was a novelty genre.
It would be nice to think that this is a symptom of some burgeoning populist Aristotelianism, for Aristotle thought that a virtue usually consisted of a happy medium between two vicious extremes.
Early incarnations of Anarky portrayed the character as an anarchist, and were intended to act as a medium for Grant's personal meditations on political philosophy, and specifically for his own anarchist, socialist, and populist leanings.
