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In this study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, the author shows that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. It shows that liberal marketplace principles have come into contradiction with themselves.

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1: The Fact of Television: A Theoretical Prologue 2: Liberalism, Corporate Liberalism 3: A Revisionist History of Broadcasting, 1900-1934 4: Inside the Beltway as an Interpretive Community: The Politics of Policy 5: Postmodern Property: Toward a New Political Economy of Broadcasting 6: "But Not the Ownership Thereof": The Peculiar Property Status of the Broadcast License 7: Broadcast Copyright and the Vicissitudes of Authorship in Electronic Culture 8: Viewing as Property: Broadcasting's Audience Commodity 9: Toward a New Politics of Electronic Media Index

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/15/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226777214, 978-0226777214
      ISBN10: 0226777219
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      Central / national / federal government policies Cultural studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, the author shows that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. It shows that liberal marketplace principles have come into contradiction with themselves.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction 1: The Fact of Television: A Theoretical Prologue 2: Liberalism, Corporate Liberalism 3: A Revisionist History of Broadcasting, 1900-1934 4: Inside the Beltway as an Interpretive Community: The Politics of Policy 5: Postmodern Property: Toward a New Political Economy of Broadcasting 6: "But Not the Ownership Thereof": The Peculiar Property Status of the Broadcast License 7: Broadcast Copyright and the Vicissitudes of Authorship in Electronic Culture 8: Viewing as Property: Broadcasting's Audience Commodity 9: Toward a New Politics of Electronic Media Index

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