Air Wars : The Fight to Reclaim Public Broadcasting

Starr, Jerold M.

ISBN 10: 0807042102 / ISBN 13: 9780807042106

Published by Beacon Press, 2000

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Synopsis:

Founder and executive director of Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting, Starr argues that allowing corporate and conservative foundations to underwrite public broadcasting while banning support from organized labor and public interest grounds ensures that programming is either bland or conservately biased. This, he says, negates public broadcasting's founding mission to provide a forum for controversy and a voice for members of the community besides the powerful. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Review: "Jerry Starr's Air Wars is the Common Sense of the Information Age. With passion, intelligence, wit, and integrity, Starr tells us how the public broadcasting system has gone so wrong, and how we, as citizens, can organize to change it. Best of all, Starr talks of his own history, winning battles to preserve and extend genuine public television in Pittsburgh." --Robert W. McChesney, author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy "A step-by-step, blow-by-blow account of how the public was robbed of its most precious, cultural resource, the public airways, and how citizen action can take it back." --George Gerbner, author of The Future of Media "Jerold M. Starr's Air Wars explains where public television went wrong and why we need noncommercial broadcasting today more than ever...By weaving that tale together with a critique of commercial television and a vision for a more democratic public broadcasting, he shows why television should continue to be of interest to scholars concerned with the health of our public life." --Lingua Franca "Air Wars documents how so many of the country's 'public' and 'noncommercial' stations have become almost indistinguishable from commercial ones, and how many boards of directors are a self-protecting elite against attempts to create a truly independent, well-funded noncommercial television system. He gives a formula for action for groups all over the country who are already in the trenches and need all the help they can get." --Ben H. Bagdikian, author of Media Monopoly "In this stirring book, Starr provides a rigorous analysis of the U.S. media and the decline of public television, as well as a step-by-step handbook for community activists who wish to reclaim local television and radio stations...Starr's work is not only a model of American idealism and community organizing, but an engrossing narrative as well." --Publishers Weekly

Bibliographic Details

Title: Air Wars : The Fight to Reclaim Public ...
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good