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May. 3rd, 2006 07:50 pm"Mass media produce and reproduce collective memories, desires, hopes and fears, and thus perform a similar function as myths in earlier centuries.... Whereas myths connect mundane everyday life with the sacred and unreachable worlds of Gods and ancestors, modern mass media mark the boundary between ordinary daily life and the inaccessible worlds of show business and top sports".
(Liesbet Van Zoonen)