“Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.”

—  Pierre Bourdieu

(1998: 18); as cited in: Helen Kelly-Holmes (2001) Minority Language Broadcasting: Breton and Irish. p. 8

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