Harold Mendelsohn argued that people needed the relaxation and harmless escapism that television offered. If they did not have it, they would find other releases from the tensions of daily life. Television simply served these needs more easily, powerfully, and efficiently than did alternatives. He called this ________ theory
a. mass entertainment
b. narcotizing dysfunction
c. laissez-faire
d. uses and gratifications
a
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