Public Television: Panacea, Pork Barrel, or Public Trust?
This history of public television over the last twenty years shows how powerful political actors and the budget process in the United States have severely restricted the strategic behavior and programming of public TV. This hard-hitting story fills a real void in the literature on the subject and should be required reading for station managers, broadcasters, students and professionals in communications, and public policymakers. The ancillary text with its analysis of organizations theory and models is intended also for undergraduate and graduate students in mass media and communications, public policy, and organizational behavior.

This practical analysis of public television funding, organization, and programming opens with an overview of organizations theory and a discussion of two models of organizational behavior. A brief history of public TV policy follows with a description of critical developments under the last four American presidents. The legislative history of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting demonstrates the effects of the budgetary process in TV programming, employment diversity, and services to different audiences. The case study closes with an evaluation of public television in terms of organizational strengths and weaknesses and offers practical suggestions for reform.

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Public Television: Panacea, Pork Barrel, or Public Trust?
This history of public television over the last twenty years shows how powerful political actors and the budget process in the United States have severely restricted the strategic behavior and programming of public TV. This hard-hitting story fills a real void in the literature on the subject and should be required reading for station managers, broadcasters, students and professionals in communications, and public policymakers. The ancillary text with its analysis of organizations theory and models is intended also for undergraduate and graduate students in mass media and communications, public policy, and organizational behavior.

This practical analysis of public television funding, organization, and programming opens with an overview of organizations theory and a discussion of two models of organizational behavior. A brief history of public TV policy follows with a description of critical developments under the last four American presidents. The legislative history of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting demonstrates the effects of the budgetary process in TV programming, employment diversity, and services to different audiences. The case study closes with an evaluation of public television in terms of organizational strengths and weaknesses and offers practical suggestions for reform.

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Public Television: Panacea, Pork Barrel, or Public Trust?

Public Television: Panacea, Pork Barrel, or Public Trust?

by Marilyn Lashley
Public Television: Panacea, Pork Barrel, or Public Trust?

Public Television: Panacea, Pork Barrel, or Public Trust?

by Marilyn Lashley

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This history of public television over the last twenty years shows how powerful political actors and the budget process in the United States have severely restricted the strategic behavior and programming of public TV. This hard-hitting story fills a real void in the literature on the subject and should be required reading for station managers, broadcasters, students and professionals in communications, and public policymakers. The ancillary text with its analysis of organizations theory and models is intended also for undergraduate and graduate students in mass media and communications, public policy, and organizational behavior.

This practical analysis of public television funding, organization, and programming opens with an overview of organizations theory and a discussion of two models of organizational behavior. A brief history of public TV policy follows with a description of critical developments under the last four American presidents. The legislative history of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting demonstrates the effects of the budgetary process in TV programming, employment diversity, and services to different audiences. The case study closes with an evaluation of public television in terms of organizational strengths and weaknesses and offers practical suggestions for reform.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313279645
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/20/1992
Series: Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications , #33
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

MARILYN LASHLEY is an Assistant Professor in the Public Policy concentration of the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She specializes in research on a number of major public policy questions.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Organization Theory and the Public Organization
Building a Coalition for Public Television
The Organization of Public Broadcasting
The Politics of Public Television and the Search for Survival
The Budget Outcomes: Winners and Losers
The Performance of Public Television
Panacea, Pork Barrel or Public Trust?
Appendix
Index

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