Viewers Like You: How Public TV Failed the People

by Laurie Ouellette

Book Overview

How "public" is public television if only a small percentage of the American people tune in on a regular basis? When public television addresses "viewers like you," just who are you? Despite the current of frustration with commercial television that runs through American life, most TV viewers bypass the redemptive "oasis of the wasteland" represented by PBS and turn to the sitcoms, soap operas, music videos, game shows, weekly dramas, and popular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231119437
• ISBN13: 9780231119436
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.1"