Mad Men harks back to an era when advertising was art and television was educational--maybe.  Meanwhile, reality television gives us messages that seem to fit right in with a 1950s ethos--right down to the race, gender, and class politics.  Television is everywhere, and everyone is talking about it, so we asked Anna McCarthy, NYU professor and author of The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America, and Jennifer Pozner, executive director of Women in Media and News and author of Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV, to join us to talk TV.

Anna and Jenn discuss educational programming and escapism, Mad Men and mommy wars, and of course, the power of advertising in this Friday's feature conversation.