Maverick: A Dissident View of Broadcasting Today

by Bob Quinn and Bob Quinn

An important, thought-provoking book offering a unique and challenging insight into broadcasting in Ireland today. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0863222889
• ISBN13: 9780863222887
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Brandon/Mount Eagle
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Maverick is a misnomer

In fact, far from being a 'maverick' view of broadcasting (that presentation can only have been a misjudged marketing ploy) this book is the result of the author's ( a renowned Irish film maker) forty years experience as an insider and outsider in Irish film making and broadcasting circles. It articulates clearly and with insider knowledge the crisis of broadcasting brought on by the phenomenon of 'the market'. An indication of its powerful insight into public broadcasting in Ireland is the fact that discussion on it has been effectively censored by the best-known personalities in the incestuous world of Irish Public television and radio. The reason? Many of them are shown in this book as having a vested interest in the trivialisation of broadcasting.The author's insights ( based on a four- year tenure on RTE's governing body) into the political and economic attitudes of such as Garret Fitzgerald, ex- premier of Ireland, Des Geraghty, head of the most powerful Union in Ireland, two Director-Generals of RTE are quite unique. The self-serving culture of Irish public broadcasting and its total subservience to the pressures of commercial and political expedience, have rarely been so clearly and worryingly dissected.This book could only have been written by an artist who is a maverick only in the sense that he has not yet submitted to 'branding'