Air Wars : The Fight to Reclaim Public Broadcasting

by Starr, Jerold M.

• ISBN13: 9780807042113
• ISBN10: 0807042110
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Random House Inc

Summary

Jerold Starr tells how a grassroots movement of concerned citizens were able to overcome enormous institutional influence in their quest for public accountability. He shows how the media reform movement has spread to major cities like Chicago, Phoenix, Jacksonville, and San Francisco, and outlines an innovative plan for restructuring the public broadcasting service as an independently funded public trust.

Author Biography

Jerold M. Starr, an activist and award-winning sociologist, is founder and executive director of Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Trouble in Three Rivers City: [WQED Debt Comes Due]	p. 1
Corporate Media's Threat to Democracy	p. 12
The Broken Promise of PBS	p. 24
The Battle to Reform WQED	p. 56
Old Wine in New Bottles: [Reproducing the Station Culture]	p. 78
What Am I Bid? [Stripping Assets at WQED]	p. 121
Round Two, the Battle over WQEX	p. 162
The Killing of WQEX and the Final Showdown	p. 186
Other Fronts: [Putting the Public into Public TV]	p. 235
Public Broadcasting in the Public Interest: [Toward a Democratic Alternative]	p. 261
Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting	p. 297
Notes	p. 301
References	p. 319
Acknowledgments	p. 326
Index	p. 328
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