Switching Channels: Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting
- ISBN-10
- 0674018788
- ISBN-13
- 9780674018785
- Series
- Switching Channels
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Authors
- Richard E CAVES, Karen Guo, Richard E. Caves
Description
Media critics invariably disparage the quality of programming produced by the U.S. television industry. But why the industry produces what it does is a question largely unasked. It is this question, at the crux of American popular culture, that Switching Channels explores.
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