George Gerbner George Gerbner was born in 1919 in Budapest, Hungary, immigrated to America in the late 1930s due to his hatred of the fascist Prime Minister. Gerbner obtained his U.S. citizenship and earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley in 1942. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, in the process writing the first-ever master's thesis on the subject of education and television, and begins …
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…education efforts for as long as possible, hoping to convince the world of the conclusions he has drawn from years of experience and research. Works Cited Gerbner, G. (1998) New television-rating system is extremely flawed. The Progressive. Mitchell, Cassandra S., Class Notes, 2004 Penn State archives http://www.alumni.upenn.edu/pennmediasummit/gross.html Starkweather, Karla. (1999). Biography of George Gerbner. University of Texas. Spring 1999. Stossel, S. (1997, May) The Man Who Counts the Killings. The Atlantic Monthly. May 1997