
The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting
Michael Tracey(Author)
Clarendon Press
Published on 29. January 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
316 pages
978-0-19-815924-7 (ISBN)
Description
Public broadcasting is the single most important social, cultural, and journalistic institution of the twentieth century. In the past fifteen years it has been assaulted politically, ideologically, technologically, and is everywhere in retreat. This book considers the idea of public service broadcasting and examines in detail the assault made upon it with specific emphasis on global developments and events in the United Kingdom, Japan, Europe, and the United States.
Michael Tracey argues that public service broadcasting has been a vital and democratically significant institution now experiencing a terminal decline brought about by changes in political, economic, and technological circumstances. Based on years of research and extensive contact with leading public broadcasters around the world the author examines the idea of public service broadcasting and how for the most part it has vainly (and often ineffectually) struggled to survive in recent years .
The author concludes that public broadcasting is, as was once said of Weimar, a corpse on leave. Its likely disappearance constitutes an indication of a real and deep-seated crisis within liberal democracy.
Michael Tracey argues that public service broadcasting has been a vital and democratically significant institution now experiencing a terminal decline brought about by changes in political, economic, and technological circumstances. Based on years of research and extensive contact with leading public broadcasters around the world the author examines the idea of public service broadcasting and how for the most part it has vainly (and often ineffectually) struggled to survive in recent years .
The author concludes that public broadcasting is, as was once said of Weimar, a corpse on leave. Its likely disappearance constitutes an indication of a real and deep-seated crisis within liberal democracy.
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...interesting and passionately written book. - Martin Cave. Info Vol 1. February 1999.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
488 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-815924-7 (9780198159247)
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Michael Tracey
The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting
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01/1998
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Michael Tracey is Professor and Director of the Center for Mass Media Research at the University of Boulder, Colorado.
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Professor and Director, Center for Mass Media ResearchProfessor and Director, Center for Mass Media Research, University of Boulder Colorado
Content
PART I ; PART II ; PART III ; PART IV