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TELEVISION QUARTERLY...... Volume XXXVI - Number 1
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A Crumbling Firewall
By Bill Moyers, who says that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is failing to protect PBS from political pressure. |
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Why All That On-Air Begging?
By Jan B. Jacobson. Interview with a veteran local public-TV station manager who notes that the CPB chairman compromised the system’s editorial integrity. |
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Backstage Secrets
By Greg Vitiello, who reveals how director Kirk Browning effects the magic of converting music to pictures for Live from Lincoln Center. |
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Boring!
By David Marc and Robert J. Thompson. How reality programs prospered, proliferated and are now turning off many viewers. |
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Fake News
By John V. Pavlik, a journalism school head who was interviewed on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. |
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Television Hoaxes Ahead
By Kenneth Harwood, who notes that from Herodotus and H.G. Wells to reality TV, hoaxers have always captured large audiences. |
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Live TV Goes Awry
By Loring Mandel. What the writer learned from a Studio One disaster in 1957. |
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Ralph Kramden and The Honeymooners Turn the Big 5 0 (Sort of).
By Ron Simon, a broadcasting historian who notes that Jackie Gleason still represents a comic reflection of postwar urban America. |
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Bewitched: Rethinking a Sixties Sitcom Classic
By Cary O’Dell, a pop culture ruminator who takes issue with conventional feminist wisdom. |
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Forty Plus
By Martin Gostanian. Why the made-for-TV movie endures. |
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REVIEW AND COMMENT
Objection!: How High-Priced Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants and a 24/7 Media Have Highjacked Our Criminal Justice System, by Nancy Grace with Diane Clehane -Reviewed by Michael M. Epstein Over the Edge: How the Pursuit and Youth by Marketers and the Media has Changed American Culture, by Leo Bogart; Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Darly Twentieth Century, by Lisa Jacobson -Reviewed by Nicholas Sammond COMCASTed: How Ralph and Brian Roberts Took Over America’s TV, One Deal at a Time, by Joseph N. DiStefano -Reviewed by Paul Noble South Park Conservatives, by Brian C. Anderson; Everything Bad Is Good For You, by Steven Johnson -Reviewed by Earl Pomerantz What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the1950s, by Marsha F. Cassidy -Reviewed by Mary Ann Watson |
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