LEADER 04194nam 22007335 450 001 9910495196903321 005 20251223190708.0 010 $a9783030800192 010 $a3030800199 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-80019-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000011994662 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6688978 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6688978 035 $a(MiFhGG)9783030800192 035 $a(BIP)81087363 035 $a(BIP)80380468 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-80019-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011994662 100 $a20210729d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe History and Politics of Public Radio $eA Comprehensive Analysis of Taxpayer-Financed US Broadcasting /$fby James T. Bennett 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (136 pages) 225 1 $aStudies in Public Choice,$x2731-5258 ;$v41 311 08$a9783030800185 311 08$a3030800180 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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?. 330 $aThis book presents an absorbing study of how educational radio, which originated to broadcast weather forecasts to farmers, has become what the Pew Center calls the most trusted source of news for American liberals and a regular in the rogue's gallery of election-year conservative targets. The Nielsen Company reported in late 2019 that 272 million Americans listen to "traditional radio" each week, a number exceeding those who watch television, use a smartphone, or access the Internet. Yet almost from the start, radio has also been flayed as a noise box of inanity, a transmitter of low-brow entertainment, an instrument of cultural degradation promoting vapid popular music, and a medium whose ultimate purpose is to convince listeners to purchase the goods and services incessantly hawked by the advertisers who underwrite the programs and allegedly dictate content. At the same time, an alternative conception of radio existed as a vehicle for education and for cultural and intellectual(and even political) enlightenment. Most proponents of this perspective disdained advertising revenue and sought subsidies from foundations, wealthy patrons, or varying levels of government. The long, winding road of educational radio led eventually to the creation of National Public Radio (NPR), a fixture on the left of the dial that can be seen as either the consummation or corruption of the educational radio movement. Prized by many liberals, especially affluent whites, and disparaged by many conservatives, NPR has become a potent symbol of the political polarization and cultural chasm that now characterizes the American conversation. 410 0$aStudies in Public Choice,$x2731-5258 ;$v41 606 $aEconomics 606 $aSocial choice 606 $aCommunication 606 $aRadio broadcasting 606 $aPolitical planning 606 $aPublic Choice and Political Economy 606 $aMedia Reception and Media Effects 606 $aRadio 606 $aMedia and Communication 606 $aPublic Policy 615 0$aEconomics. 615 0$aSocial choice. 615 0$aCommunication. 615 0$aRadio broadcasting. 615 0$aPolitical planning. 615 14$aPublic Choice and Political Economy. 615 24$aMedia Reception and Media Effects. 615 24$aRadio. 615 24$aMedia and Communication. 615 24$aPublic Policy. 676 $a384.5406573 700 $aBennett$b James T.$0631530 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495196903321 996 $aThe History and Politics of Public Radio$92010067 997 $aUNINA