Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market, and the Public Sphere

ISBN-13: 9780367300289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 207 str.

William Hoynes

Opis

In this analysis of the forces that shape our public television system, sociologist William Hoynes examines the nature of public television's funding structure and its impact on programming, the relationship between public television and the public and the absence of shared goals within public television.

Spis treści

Public Television: The Historical and Political Context -- The Political Economy of Mass Media -- Early Visions of Public Television -- The Content of Public Television: A Case Study of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour -- Funding and the Politics of Programming -- Audiences, Markets, and the Public -- Goal Ambiguity and Organizational Survival -- Democracy and the Future of Public Television -- Methodological Appendix

O autorze

William Hoynes is assistant professor of sociology at Vassar College.