Public Radio and Television in America: A Political HistoryThe origins and evolution of the major insititutions in the United States for noncommercial radio and television are explored in this unique volume. Ralph Engelman examines the politics behind the development of National Public Radio, Radio Pacifica and the Public Broadcasting Service. He traces the changing social forces that converged to launch and shape these institutions from the Second World War to the present day. The book challenges several commonly held beliefs - including that the mass media is simply a manipulative tool - and concludes that public broadcasting has an enormous potential as an emancipatory vehicle. |
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... community television . Other initiatives supported by Challenge for Change in public access programming on cable television drew on the abortive Thunder Bay model . One of the most successful took place in Normandin , located in the ...
... community television . Other initiatives supported by Challenge for Change in public access programming on cable television drew on the abortive Thunder Bay model . One of the most successful took place in Normandin , located in the ...
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... community organizers associated with Challenge for Change took issue with the belief that community television represented a substitute for traditional forms of popular mobilization and that new electronic media could strengthen the ...
... community organizers associated with Challenge for Change took issue with the belief that community television represented a substitute for traditional forms of popular mobilization and that new electronic media could strengthen the ...
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... community television was applied to the capacity of cable television systems for two - way communica- tion . The pilot project demonstrated how the interactive potential of cable and video technology could be used to facilitate ...
... community television was applied to the capacity of cable television systems for two - way communica- tion . The pilot project demonstrated how the interactive potential of cable and video technology could be used to facilitate ...
Contents
Prologue 19141945 | 4 |
The Public Origins of American Broadcasting | 11 |
The Defeat of the Broadcast Reform Movement of the 1930s | 26 |
Copyright | |
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