Zoey Tur quote

While television can help normalize the lives of marginalized people, it also can exploit their hardships and reinforce stereotypes, reducing their lives to mere entertainment.
Zoey Tur
Zoey Tur
Zoey Tur
Born: Jun 8, 1960

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Entertainment, People, Hardships, Television, Mere, Stereotypes, Also, Reducing, While, Exploit, Help, Lives, Reinforce, Marginalized

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Ambrose Bierce, Dave Barry, Erma Bombeck, Hunter S. Thompson, Mignon McLaughlin, Walter Cronkite, William F. Buckley, Jr., William Lloyd Garrison

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