The Other Face of Public TV

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ISBN: 9781892941831 | 189294183X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 2/1/2002

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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 >

Introduction

(4)

Foreword: Dreams of a Better World

(4)

The Other Face of Public Television

(6)

Private Airwaves

(8)

The Matrix of an Era: Shifting Definitions of Cause

(10)

Edward R. Murrow: Anomaly

(2)

Commercial Television's Seminal Discovery

(18)

An Inchoate Leadership

(8)

Poor But Honest in ``The American Century''

(6)

The Invalidization of Educational TV

(6)

Why ``Educational'' TV Dried Up

(12)

The State to the Rescue!

(8)

The Cloven Hoof

(4)

Nixon's Coup

(10)

From Nixon's Office of Telecommunications Policy to the ``Reagan Revolution''

107

(4)

Not-So-Benign Neglect

111

(12)

Knuckling Under, Getting the Grants

123

(4)

Creativity by Committee

127

(8)

The Team as Organizational Model

135

(8)

TV Journalism as Literature, as Theater, As Sport

143

(14)

Who Makes the Rules, Anyway?

157

(8)

The Root of All Television, Too

165

(6)

How Programs Really Get Produced

171

(4)

The Self-Interest/Public Interest Equation

175

(14)

``Underwriting'' For Whom?

189

(8)

Elitism Versus Multiculturalism

197

(6)

Programs as Product: Forty Years of Capital Formation

203

(28)

The Culture of Consumerism

231

(4)

What Kind of Future Anyway, Mr. Marx?

235

(4)

The Basket Case, With a Smile

239

(14)

Survey the Territory, Devise a Method

253

(4)

TV as Art

257

(4)

Let's Try Education, For a Change!

261

(6)

A Meditation For Legislators

267

(10)

A Manifesto

277

(8)

Still Hope For Reason

285

(6)

TV and the National Destiny: Move Aside, Consumerism, Move Aside GDP

291

(8)

Picture Credits

299

(6)

Endnotes

305

(12)

Index

317

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The Other Face of Public TV

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