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The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting
David Barsamian; Amy Goodman (Foreword); Mumia Abu-Jamal (Afterword)
Pages: 112Edition: Second Edition
ISBN: 0-89608-654-2
Format: paper
Release Date: 2001-01-01
This book is also available in cloth
Public broadcasting increasingly reflects the mentality of corporate America, offering a spectrum of views “from A to B, from GE to GM,” writes journalist David Barsamian in The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting. The concentration of the for-profit media has made it even more difficult for alternative voices to gain a hearing, he argues.
In The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting, Barsamian draws on his years of experience in public radio and gives an insider's perspective on public broadcasting in the United States, as well as the challenges faced by new media activists.
In this new edition, Barsamian describes the important victory of media activists who have fought for democracy and accountability in the Pacifica radio network. While emphasizing the important lessons of this victory, he suggests that "much remains to be done" to build more democratic public broadcasting institutions.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Amy Goodman
1
Watchdogs or Lapdogs?
2
The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting
3
Independent Media Alternatives
4 Struggle
and Victory at Pacifica
Afterword by Mumia Abu-Jamal
David Barsamian
Click here to view David Barsamian's full Author PageDavid Barsamian is founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He is a radio producer, journalist, author, and lecturer. He has been working in radio since 1978. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine. He is the author of several books, including Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky; Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire and The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting.
His recent books with South End Press are The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy, and Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine.
The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its “Top Ten Media Heroes.” Barsamian lectures on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. He is the winner of the ACLU's 2003 Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism.