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200 10$aViewers Like You$b[electronic resource] $eHow Public TV Failed the People
210   $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$d2002
215   $a1 online resource (299 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-231-11943-7 
327   $aContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Cultural Contradictions of Public Television; 1. Oasis of the Vast Wasteland; 2. The Quest to Cultivate; 3. TV Viewing as Good Citizenship; 4. Something for Everyone; 5. Radicalizing Middle America; Epilogue: Public Television, Popularity, and Cultural Justice; Notes; Index
330   $aHow ""public"" is public television if only a small percentage of the American people tune in on a regular basis? When public television addresses ""viewers like you,"" just who are you? Despite the current of frustration with commercial television that runs through American life, most TV viewers bypass the redemptive ""oasis of the wasteland"" represented by PBS and turn to the sitcoms, soap operas, music videos, game shows, weekly dramas, and popular news programs produced by the culture industries. Viewers Like You? traces the history of public broadcasting in the United States, questi
606   $aElite (Social sciences) -- United States -- History
606   $aIdeology -- United States -- History
606   $aPublic television -- United States -- History
608   $aElectronic books.
615  4$aElite (Social sciences) -- United States -- History.
615  4$aIdeology -- United States -- History.
615  4$aPublic television -- United States -- History.
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