附註:Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-316) and index.
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.
摘要: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 culture's future. Drawing less on the public record and commentary, more on what actually happened during meetings and conversations (like hiring/firing sessions), the author demonstrates how the social forces spawned by developing economics and government in the U.S. have straitjacketed this instrument of freedom and democracy. Larger issues affecting all of society are an important part of the book's architecture.
