The history and politics of public radio : a comprehensive analysis of taxpayer-financed US broadcasting / James T. Bennett.
2021
HE8697.95.U6 B46 2021
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Title
The history and politics of public radio : a comprehensive analysis of taxpayer-financed US broadcasting / James T. Bennett.
Author
Bennett, James T., author.
ISBN
9783030800192 (electronic bk.)
3030800199 (electronic bk.)
3030800180
9783030800185
3030800199 (electronic bk.)
3030800180
9783030800185
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vii, 133 pages)
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10.1007/978-3-030-80019-2 doi
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HE8697.95.U6 B46 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
384.540973
Summary
This book presents an absorbing study of how educational radio, which originated to broadcast weather forecasts to farmers, has become what the Pew Center calls the most trusted source of news for American liberals and a regular in the rogue's gallery of election-year conservative targets. The Nielsen Company reported in late 2019 that 272 million Americans listen to "traditional radio" each week, a number exceeding those who watch television, use a smartphone, or access the Internet. Yet almost from the start, radio has also been flayed as a noise box of inanity, a transmitter of low-brow entertainment, an instrument of cultural degradation promoting vapid popular music, and a medium whose ultimate purpose is to convince listeners to purchase the goods and services incessantly hawked by the advertisers who underwrite the programs and allegedly dictate content. At the same time, an alternative conception of radio existed as a vehicle for education and for cultural and intellectual (and even political) enlightenment. Most proponents of this perspective disdained advertising revenue and sought subsidies from foundations, wealthy patrons, or varying levels of government. The long, winding road of educational radio led eventually to the creation of National Public Radio (NPR), a fixture on the left of the dial that can be seen as either the consummation or corruption of the educational radio movement. Prized by many liberals, especially affluent whites, and disparaged by many conservatives, NPR has become a potent symbol of the political polarization and cultural chasm that now characterizes the American conversation
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Studies in public choice ; 41. 0924-4700
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Don't Give the Public What It Wants; Give the Public What it Needs
Radio Is Good for You! The Rise of Educational Radio
Carnegie's Lemon? The Birth of NPR
Washington Verus The Sticks
Left, Right, or Always Establishment? The Bias Issue,
Newt [Gingrich] Cometh
Conclusion: What Is To Be Done?
Don't Give the Public What It Wants; Give the Public What it Needs
Radio Is Good for You! The Rise of Educational Radio
Carnegie's Lemon? The Birth of NPR
Washington Verus The Sticks
Left, Right, or Always Establishment? The Bias Issue,
Newt [Gingrich] Cometh
Conclusion: What Is To Be Done?