"Beginning with the 1975-76 television season and continuing for eight years, Shaheen, an American of Arabic descent, documented over 100 different popular entertainment programs, cartoons and major documentaries telecast on network, independent an
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d public channels, totaling nearly 200 episodes, that related to Arabs. He concludes that TV in its various genre perpetrates four basic myths: they are all fabulously rich; they are barbaric and uncultured; they are sex maniacs with a penchant for white slavery; and they revel in acts of terrorism." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 780)
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