The book by Pierre Bourdieu about television and its effects was itself a television event. The author delivered two lectures at the Collège de France on the structure and impact of television, which were broadcast on television. In the first lecture, he highlighted the invisible censorship mechanisms that apply on screen, revealing the secrets of the artistic products of this medium, their images and formulations. In the second lecture, Pierre Bourdieu explained how television, which occupies a central position within journalism, has influenced and changed the nature of discourse in the visual arts, literature, philosophy, and politics, even in law and science—partly because the logic of ratings has also permeated these fields.