Primetime Politics: The Truth about Conservative Lies, Corporate Control, and Television Culture

In this work, Green (emeritus, government, Smith College) is deeply critical of an American television system of publicly licensed private monopolies controlling a public good for their own purposes and those of corporate advertisers and calls for its abolition. After first dissecting the myth of television media being controlled by liberals, he documents the damage that the television system does to democratic discourse in its production of news and of fictive programs that together falsely frame debates about crime, violence, and other important societal matters. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR