Television and America's Children: A Crisis of Neglect

by Edward L. Palmer

Book Overview

Children's television in America is in a deplorable state of neglect. Since the demise of Captain Kangaroo in the early '80s, there has been no regular weekday programming for children on the three major commercial networks, and very little on chronically underfunded Public TV. Yet as Edward Palmer points out in this illuminating volume, America could easily have the finest children's television in the world, for less than one cent per day for each...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195055403
• ISBN13: 9780195055405
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.4"