By Kathryn C. Montgomery
ISBN-10: 0195049640
ISBN-13: 9780195049640
ISBN-10: 0195063201
ISBN-13: 9780195063202
ISBN-10: 0198021658
ISBN-13: 9780198021650
Providing the 1st book-length exploration of community television's relatives with advocacy teams, Kathryn C. Montgomery provides a finished photograph of the impression of equipped strain on prime-time television. She vividly describes, for instance, how the Catholic Church campaigned opposed to Maude's abortion at the television exhibit, Maude; how outraged actors mobilized a countrywide protest opposed to the portrayal of blacks within the television miniseries, Beulah Land; and the way the ethical Majority waged a worldly crusade to "clean up TV," via threatening to boycott advertisers. Exposing the interior workings of community tv as no different ebook has performed, Montgomery's examine demonstrates how behind-the-scenes struggles have formed the photographs, messages, and values that input people's houses each evening. The e-book additionally increases serious questions on television's function in our society and its accountability to the yank public.
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In a 1961 newspaper article "TV Censor's Job: Listening to All Those Complaints," NBC's head of broadcast standards characterized such groups as petty annoyances. " The article lightheartedly listed the kinds of complaints that faced the network censors: Dental groups howl when a TV character expresses dread of the , dentist's chair. . Bankers and securities dealers don't like it when one is depicted as a crook or embezzler. . Librarians' organizations write bitter little notes about the stereotypes of the librarian.
That role was played by the Los Angeles chapter of Planned Parenthood, which was easily accessible to Hollywood writers and producers. As a result, Planned Parenthood leaders were in a good position to anticipate opposition from anti-abortion groups and to plan a counterstrategy. 17 34 Target: Prime Time Network affiliates were not required to carry all of the programming fed to them by the networks. Though these local stations routinely aired the network's shows, they occasionally pre-empted them with other programs, especially in cases where the network programming might cause trouble for the stations in their local communities.
But, despite its effort to promote public good will, the industry continued to be a target. The congressional hearings and press coverage of the quiz scandals had focused a piercing searchlight on the Television Under Siege 19 entire television industry. Though the quiz shows had vanished from the airwaves, serious questions remained in the public's mind about the integrity and quality of television. " Newly appointed FCC chairman Newton Minow publicly chastised industry leaders in 1961, challenging them to sit down in front of your television sets when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and loss sheet, or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off.