Socialist ideas often focus on the nature of employment in capitalism.But what about our time away fom work,
when we try to forget about our unfulfilling or stressful jobs? How does the capitalist system - and its ideology -
influence what we do in the evenings and at weekends? We might go to the pub.Or the football ground.Or the
cinema.Or we might just smoke a joint and watch the parade of celebrities on television. The media plays a
  massive part in our culture.Television,the internet,newspapers and magazines - all offer us windows on the
 rest  of the world. But this comes at a price when what we see is shaped by the capitalist preoccupations of media
 giants like the BBC and the Fox Network. However,even within the mainstream media,anti-capitalist ideas
 can sometimes break through,in popular music as well as in investigative journalism.