| Description |
1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations |
| Note |
Includes index. |
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Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-316) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Public television -- United States.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Television & Video.
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Public television. (OCoLC)fst01083089
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Roger P. (Roger Phillips), 1929- Other face of public television. New York : Algora Pub., ©2002 1892941821 (DLC) 2002000904 |
| ISBN |
1892941430 (electronic bk.) |
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9781892941435 (electronic bk.) |
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