Television and the Public Interest: Vulnerable Values in Western European Broadcasting

by Jay G. Blumler

Modern broadcasting policy faces a number of challenges: how to regulate the growing commercial sector; the position and funding of public service television; and finding appropriate forms of public accountability in the changed media environment. Television and the Public Interest examines these challenges and how they are being addressed in the media systems of eight European nations. The authors aim throughout is to identify the basic values that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803986505
• ISBN13: 9780803986503
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 8.0"