John Fiske, a famous American popular culture theorist, surpassed the attitude of traditional elitism and pessimism of popular culture and advocated and extolled the creativity, initiative and revolt of popular culture, even tried to explain the superficiality, barrenness and poverty of popular texts and emphasized that popular appreciation was the exclusion and resistance to modern aesthetic hegemony by regarding media texts as carrier, media audience as core and media experience as goal. Although such populism promises equality and democracy, it nevertheless avoids aesthetic judgment, and this may ultimately cause the declining of people’s ability to appreciate beauty and art. To avoid this consequence, the role of aesthetic education must be duly recognized.