This anthology consists of journalistic essays on each of these popular arts: advertising, journalism, cartoons, radio and television, photography and motion pictures, popular literature, popular music, and public education. Examples of most of the art forms are also included. The book is aimed at junior college students. Its purpose is to encourage them to investigate, evaluate, and appreciate fully the workings of the mass media and popular arts and to recognize how these media and art forms daily influence them and our society. Topics for papers and a bibliography are appended. (JK)