Viewers Like You : How Public TV Failed the People.

How "public" is public television if only a small percentage of the American people tune in on a regular basis? When public television addresses "viewers like you," just who are you? Despite the current of frustration with commercial television that runs through American life, mo...

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Main Author: Ouellette, Laurie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Cultural Contradictions of Public Television; 1. Oasis of the Vast Wasteland; 2. The Quest to Cultivate; 3. TV Viewing as Good Citizenship; 4. Something for Everyone; 5. Radicalizing Middle America; Epilogue: Public Television, Popularity, and Cultural Justice; Notes; Index. 
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