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The other face of public television : censoring the American dream /

Government and corporate interference have robbed the public of access to point-of-view programming. Through subterfuge, suppression of dissent and thought control, Washington (with eager assistance from Madison Avenue) has locked out the creatives and the educators -- the people who fashion any cul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Roger P. (Roger Phillips), 1929-2011
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Algora Pub., ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Dreams of a better world
  • The other face of public television
  • Private airwaves
  • The matrix of an era : shifting definitions of cause
  • Edward R. Murrow : anomaly
  • Commercial television's seminal discovery
  • An inchoate leadership
  • Poor but honest in "The American century"
  • The invalidization of educational TV
  • Why "educational" TV dried up
  • The state to the rescue!
  • The cloven hoof
  • Nixon's coup
  • From Nixon's office of telecommunications policy to the "Reagan revolution"
  • Not-so-benign neglect
  • Knuckling under, getting the grants
  • Creativity by committee
  • The team as organizational model
  • TV journalism as literature, as theater, as sport
  • Who makes the rules, anyway?
  • The root of all television, too
  • How programs really get produced
  • The self-interest/public interest equation
  • "Underwriting" for whom?
  • Elitism versus multiculturalism
  • Programs as product : forty years of capital formation
  • The culture of consumerism
  • What kind of future anyway, Mr. Marx?
  • The basket case, with a smile
  • Survey the territory, devise a method
  • TV as art
  • Let's try education, for a change!
  • A manifesto
  • Still hope for reason
  • TV and the national destiny : move aside, consumerism, move aside GDP.